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Coca-Cola Taxes
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this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2024
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Externalities with no direct impact on the company? No way! Milton Friedman assured me that capitalism was perfectly balanced with 0 exploits!
Why, the free market can solve externalities! We just need an economy with
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negligible transaction costs. Easy, any day now!
Don't blame a soda company of you being fat and chugging 130 calories down 12 ounces at a time. Own up to your own shit. "This item tastes good. I blame it for ne being unhealthy because I won't stop eating/drinking too much of it"
In isolation that is true, but it's not a fair game. Own up to your own shit when They lobby against restrictions in schools to target children with their addictive substances. They have marketing budgets in the hundreds of millions to convince us one more won't hurt. They employ psychologists to come up with the most manipulative strategys.
It's not a level playing field.