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human
CMV: We should tax the "externalization" of a cost, and the tax should be high enough to make it NOT worth it in the first place.

For example, it's cheaper to transport chicken from the USA to China, where it will be processed (it's cheaper due to lower wages and other reasons) and shipped back to the USA. This is a monstrous practice, that creates a lot more pollution due to trans-oceanic transportation and takes capital out of a nation.

The end product is cheaper to manufacture so the corporation can increase its profits, and the costs are externalized: someone else will have to clean the oceans in the future, and someone else misses out on a job that's outsourced to another nation. Net gain for the corporation, net loss for everyone else.

We need taxes in place so that this practice is a net loss for the corporation. It's ruining the country and the world.

Edit: no, I don't think selective protectionism would harm the poor. I think it would increase prices but it would also increase job availability, for a net benefit for workers.
gpt
The taxes should be high enough to offset whatever harm is done. If that means high enough to make it not worth it in the first place, fine, but if the harm can be adequately offset for a certain amount of money why would you need to charge substantially more than that?