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by norea-armozel 3512 days ago
Tax negative externalities of firms that produce such goods without reservation or exemption. It sucks but it's the most logical thing to do in this context. Most importantly, it doesn't levy the tax on a single issue but on all goods which have them (cars, phones, medicines, etc all have some negative externality on society). I doubt it'll ever come to be since it seems the modern liberal mind set is to ban rather than properly levy a tax to cover the costs of current damage done by given producers.