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:
My cousin died to protect your right to say this. Ads are speech too.
I can say "you should get the vaccine!" Companies that want to say these kinds of things have rules to abide by: and thanks fully so.
I'm much for free speech, but more in the sense that we should be able to discuss policy/politics/critique/bitch/bash/religions/etc. Not so we can make terror plans, defame, harass, bully and share child porn.
Not sure what happened to your cousin... But I'm curious now. Care to share?
My cousin served in the Armed Forces "to protect your freedom" (his words). The fact that he died during training maneuvers, does not detract from that.
But personally when I look the US' history of military interventions then I sadly have to conclude he was made to believe he did it for "our freedom". A good facade for a dirty business. In fact he did it for corporate and Israel's interests. And probably he personally did it for the money and "cool job status" too.
Only the US population seems to, on average, favour going to war.
Still feel bad for your cousin.
The recent past should tell you that a lot of what some would call legitimate critique/bitch/bash etc. others would call harass/bully/violence –to also include not speaking about it at all.
So in the interest of consistency, and publicity, I'd prefer to let the bigots of the world speak, and out themselves as bigots, so that we may then publicly speak and make fun of them for being bigots. The same goes for corporations.
Children, adults, people-in-positions-of-power and corps should be held to different standards.
I've seen banks offer "quick loans" specifically to vulnerable adults. Same with the opiod crisis: some big pharmas dont mind pushing the message that "patients should talk to their doctors about XYZ". Corps can do much more harm than individuals.