▶ Your Answer : Some people believe that by increasing tax which the government imposes the company as they destruct environment, they can prevent the excessive demolition of the environment by the company. Whereas others think that tax could not helpful for preservation of the environment. If I had to choose among with them. I agree with the former statement. Since by the means of regulation as taxing, the government can develop new methods to preserve their eco-system also force the company to make their product more eco-friendly. First of all, the government can have a change for company's perception about the environmental matter with enforcing the increased tax. Obviously, pursuing profits is their most important purpose that their efforts, so they want to prevent heavy tax which reducing their profits. For example, If the governments forced high taxes to the companies that had been a negative influence on the environments. They could not avoid increased pay for production costs. In order to reduce the decrease of profits, they would consider this environmental problem more serious than before. consequently, it will lead to their products' trait to be more eco-friendly. Therefore, it is necessary that control of the government to the company for the preservation of the environment. Secondly, the right regulation is effective method for protecting the environment. With the additional tax, the government can be allowed using this increased budget to invest in the certain methods such as campaign, program which are preserving the environment. For instance, according to some research by Korea University, when they investigated several countries that well known for making eco-friendly materials, they had a same tendency that have 40% more campaign and research related to solve an environmental problem than other countries. Also, if government extend the program when it comes to improving consumer's awareness on environmental matter, the consumer would reduce buying an environmentally harmful products. To sum up, by forcing taxes to the less eco-friendly company, the government could induce a change in recognition of the company for the environment, also improving the means to produce more well-preserved the environment. |