Though such taxes are spectacularly unpopular – perhaps because individuals refuse to admit that the externalities they themselves create are significant – I regard them as an important direction for future policy (and I intend to suggest other ideas along these lines in future columns).
Si bien esos impuestos son tremendamente impopulares –tal vez porque las personas se rehúsan a admitir que las externalidades que ellas mismas crean son significativas– los considero un rumbo importante para las políticas futuras (y pretendo sugerir otras ideas similares en artículos futuros).