One argument that is for our government increasing its pollution tax on gasoline, is that it encourages the use of environmentally friendly fuels. According to Admin have stated that "The introduction of social cost on Carbon emission will encourage firms and individuals to look for alternative sources of fuels like solar power in order to avoid high prices on carbon pollution tax (Admin,ProanCon.com,2018). Since people are somewhat fed up with the taxes that they have pay they are likely to switch the forms of transportation that they would be using.
On the other hand, one argument that is against our government increasing its pollution tax on gasoline is the higher administration cost. According to admin have stated, " to implement a carbon tax the government needs a huge amount of capital."(Admin, ProanCon.com, 2018). Since the government needs the money for the carbon tax and that we should not be giving the government the capital money.
I think that we should not increase the taxes on gas because increasing the taxes for them would make people poor since the gas would be a lot of money. For tax fairness, is that the people that are in the middle class that is already having a hard time paying for gas but the rich people are not even having any trouble paying for the gas. Overall everything, I think that we should not increase the taxes on the gas but just leave it as where it is because everybody is being able to pay for it without having to struggle with it.
I think that environmentalist would agree because people can change to electric cars because gas would cost more money with a tax
ReplyDeleteI would potentially disagree with you, but there are other risks to increasing taxes on gas besides making more people poor. Another risk for this is protesters causing riots in the streets because of the tax, an example of this being in Paris, France when rioters torched cars and gathered in the streets.
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