If a tax on used clothing imports was introduced before an outright ban, this could subsidise local production and increase local manufacturing capacity.
Norway levies a tax on use of electricity, but exempts main industrial usages.
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In 2017, Bill Gates proposed a tax on companies using AI which could be used to finance programs for the elderly and others with unmet needs.
At the international climate conference in Copenhagen in December, Connie Hedegaard, now the European Union's climate minister, proposed a tax on fuels used in shipping, saying the proceeds could be used to help poor countries adapt to rising temperatures.
He suggested exploring the use of a tax on antibiotic use and also measures to encourage the developments of alternatives by small biotechnology companies and universities, such as vaccines.
First, economic theory predicts that because a mandated wage increase operates essentially as a tax on the use of lower-skilled labor, living wages may discourage the use of such labor.
Earlier this year, Florida legislators received a bill similar to the Texas bill, to finance a $400 million baseball stadium through a tax on cruise passengers using "big ports," defined so that only Miami qualified.
A simpler strategy might be a tax on the use of fertilizer, which would provide a direct incentive to apply less of this material on the land and so reduce the amount of nitrogen going into the soil.
And nowhere in his speech did he allude to the most powerful tool to address the problem: a tax on the use of energy.
