Freon would be a much more interesting example as it hurts societies in the long-term and not individuals in the short.
Better way is to tax consumption, but that has never been popular in US.
Yes we complain a lot and criticize the government and don’t fully trust our polarized politicians, but a real “low trust” society is a far cry from what we have.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_trust_and_low_trust_socie...
In any case, what the govt doesn't take in taxes, it can just take via inflation.
Wealth confiscation via inflation is great! it doesn't require politicians to justify higher taxes to their constituents (and thus face the wrath of their voters), and it can be implemented by unaccountable and unelected officials at the Fed.
I am the most anti-socialist person I know and even to me, inflation is too cruel of a tax.
This is the same fallacious thinking “libertarians” fall into when they think civil court will solve for most regulations/codes. The burden of proving harm is too high. Probably hundreds of millions were spent proving that leaded gasoline was unsafe. No criminal prosecution could have accomplished that. They simply don’t have the resources.
And who would they have prosecuted anyway? The gasoline companies weren’t actually the ones causing the harm. It was the billions of people driving around burning the stuff.
There’s a reason we end up with laws regulating specific things like this. It’s untenable for the courts to handle otherwise.
But then again I am not really an anarcho-capitalist, but an extremely mild minarchist (imagine Raegan without his naiveness or Thatcher without her inferiority complex). So even this doesn't represent my opinion.
