New Tax on People for Being Annoying

[newcastlefan]

Should We Tax People for Being Annoying?


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/ma...g.html?hp&_r=0

This is how economists think, anyway. And that’s why a majority of them support some form of Pigovian tax, named after Alfred Pigou, the early-20th-century British economist. Pigou developed the idea of externalities: the things we do that affect others and that the market is unable to price. A negative externality is like the national equivalent of what happens when you go to dinner with three friends and, knowing that you’ll pay only a fourth of the bill, decide to order an expensive entree. Pigou argued that there are so many damaging things that we do — play music too loudly, drive aggressively — and that we’d probably do less if we had to pay for them.

Schmoopy would be broke, ok broker.

[Ralph]

Oderus does all those things

[newcastlefan]

Oderus does all those things

well sure, so does most of the HS forum.

[Napoleon V]

You betta pay off!

[Napoleon V]

I've done 7 of those in the past week.

[O Face]

sitting in traffic doesn't belong in there. That's not a choice. You should get a tax credit for having to endure it