We can address two extreme societal problems locally. Both require changing behavior and a pile of new money: 1) Reduce waste management costs and impacts and 2) improve community-wide health by addressing the litany of sugar-driven metabolic diseases that are destroying America’s health and health “system.”
The taxation rubric is called differential subsidization: Tax the B-Jesus out of what you seek to reduce and subsidize the beneficial solutions with the new revenue stream. A) tax…