gegyx wrote:Yes, I also heard that; France Info:
an environmental tax on textile ...It made me raise tension, but
Bham to react faster ...
We left towards generalization of new taxes, which will be more or less accept, because they fall under the pretext of ecology; sensitivity of the moment, about motor to impose new taxes. I heard that our company had already imposed an intolerable rate.
So we went to a generalization of green taxes, for various reasons, more or less convoluted, the purpose of which will be an additional tax, while the organizers believe, nor does it address the real causes of waste and waste.
Well, you can imagine that I agree with you. see
https://www.econologie.com/forums/lisez-le-p ... 09-60.html and especially :
While it is true that even without surcharge we risk such a recession, sooner or later, I do not see the States advocating the decay that inevitably must generate tax revenue cuts, job losses, companies that lose markets, etc ...... in short, a complete overhaul of our societies, so political instability and therefore an embarrassing situation for our leaders.
It would then be enough for leaders to be ecologically aware for citizens to follow them on energy reduction and environmental protection measures. It is very easy for managers to say to national car manufacturers: develop such an auto model by reducing its consumption and its environmental impact, let's stop making thermal insulators that require large amounts of energy for their manufacture (glass or glass melting rock for example), .... etc.
But our leaders do they want? are they really aware? Do they really want the decay? it comes back to topics relating to Nicolas Hulot.
You will notice as I take the problem unlike Jancovici: what is overtaxing if there is no primary political will to change things because for me the overtaxation is not a positive act, this is an easy solution which tends to say, we see qqchose done to the ecology. But realistically, it does not offer real solutions, it is even not an admission decision.
And today, it is clear that our leaders through the blossoming of environmental taxes of all kinds, are riding this wave economic-ecological knowing full well that it is in the air.
There are undoubtedly environmental taxes necessary to organize good recycling and good management of resources, but there will also surely be unnecessary ones which will only benefit certain privileged people rather than the environment. So for me, we are only making money to maintain growth, to prepare perhaps for the alternation of certain companies by others in more "ecological" sectors, but we are not preparing for decline.
It is not by typing the wallet citizens that profoundly change the situation. For him the citizen, he can not demand to buy a car which consumes almost nothing he can not require to have a roof next to his work, in short, it takes what comes, it has decision-making power in regard to his life, and again.
But it will be seen in several years, when they say, well yes, we did what we could, we have taxed energy and yet it was not enough.
And as long as to do, see also the subject of iota: https: //www.econologie.com/forums/post36905.html#36905