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by phpisthebest 1255 days ago
That is one way to look at it, I disagree with this however even taking at face value you need to calculate the actual cost of the externality and then recover that

here they are saying "Well we need the price set to X to be competitive" that has nothing to do with calculating the cost of the externality, which may be lower (or higher) the taxation needed to bring this product to be price comparable