Company decides to brick a popular product? Who picks up the landfill tab?
Your electricity one is a good example
Hell, even RTO - SF offered some pretty nice tax incentives for companies who enforced RTO to “revive” the city. Who pays for this? They did a great job keeping those on the DL
I only know because I happened be involved in those conversations on the periphery - it was no coincidence we started an RTO policy right as we got a huge, huge new office
my comment is just a recognition that corporations are a polite fiction and all taxes are ultimately incident on individuals, the same as any economist would tell you. taxes on the rich should be higher, agreed.
What makes you believe highways are nearly free? Do all those people doing highway maintenance not get paid?
Also, road wear scales with the fourth power of axle load. This means a 3-axle 30-tonne truck causes 15.000 times the wear of a 2-axle 2-tonne car. Even if highways are currently "nearly free" to maintain with a car-dominated traffic mix, moving all that rail transport into heavy trucks is going to rapidly make highway maintenance costs explode.
it would be a subsidy to deliver power at below equilibrium price to residents simply because they are residents and not a corporate buyer. raising prices for consumers when demand comes from elsewhere is not a subsidy.
Company decides to brick a popular product? Who picks up the landfill tab?
Your electricity one is a good example
Hell, even RTO - SF offered some pretty nice tax incentives for companies who enforced RTO to “revive” the city. Who pays for this? They did a great job keeping those on the DL
I only know because I happened be involved in those conversations on the periphery - it was no coincidence we started an RTO policy right as we got a huge, huge new office