Talk:Change What We Tax/@comment-25684072-20141114143017/@comment-252647-20150207111739

Yes, the card needs to be adjusted to clearly account for this - either be more precise about a tax shift that benefits employment at the lower incomes rather than simply increased aggregation of wealth --- or needs to be less specific. Here's a less specific version (I'm thinking the general card should be less specific, with more specific cards, like "carbon tax" as useful:

 Tax the things we want less of, not the things we want more of. No one likes paying taxes, and both individuals and companies try to use less of whatever costs the most. Adjust our taxes with this in mind and watch as human ingenuity and market forces adjust our world – to employ more people, take better care of resources, you name it.



'' Instead of:  a tax system that unerringly propagates things we don’t want – such as unemployment, pollution, concentration of wealth and destruction of the middle class, you name it.   ''