Green taxes would replace environmentally harmful taxes that encourage what we want less of─pollution, resource waste, and environmental degradation.

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Green taxes are designed to discourage environmentally harmful activities by imposing taxes on them, thereby replacing taxes that encourage such activities. By contrast, conventional taxes can inadvertently promote pollution, resource waste, and environmental degradation by failing to capture the full ecological costs of economic activities.

Green Taxes Would Replace Environmentally Harmful Taxes That Encourage What