[johnmarcus]

Nice try big government, but a tax will only increase prices for end consumers and will disportionately affected poor people while actually doing jack shit to reduce consumption.

[Thorrez]

Use the money from the tax to help poor people.

A tax is much more free market than a ban.

[cortesoft]

We have to deal with externalities somehow. If the price of damage to the environment isn’t priced in, the market will do nothing to solve it.

[glacials]

Competition will do the work—if my business deals with the tax by raising prices for consumers, your business can instead invest into R&D to figure out how to keep prices steady. Your business wins, and the consumer wins.