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>>matthe+(OP)
This post came from this HN discussion earlier this week:

What if we made advertising illegal?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43595269#43599667

>>matthe+f
We should outright forbid it in public space. IHMO.

Also I'd say lets only tax undesirable behaviour!

So not tax:

* wages

* having a house

* adding value (VAT)

But so tax:

* land use

* polluting

* packaging (could be part of polluting)

* accumulating profits at the top

This idea has some similarities to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

>>cies+Pd
Totally agree on taxing undesirable behavior--everyone complains about 'traffic' and the potential traffic impacts of something. If noise/pollution was taxed appropriately perhaps traffic would be less of a concern. A government needs to get revenue somehow and wages are just a very convenient way to do so. However, with all the modern technology that we have now, I think there are options available that are not being taken (such as fair land use tax with computer calculated values)