December 22, 2008
STOP BREATHING! YOU'RE POLLUTING MY AIR!
The liberal push for carbon taxes gets a pointy-headed discussion going among a "shut 'em down or tax them bankrupt" uber-blogger, an economist braino, and libertarian squints, all talking past each other, and around the basic point:
CO2 is not a pollutant.
NROs Jim Manzi, who always brings in basic business knowledge and analysis rarely considered in the politico punditocracy, exchanges obscurantism phrase-for-phrase just to prove he can do it, then deflates them by spoon-feeding them the bare truth.
If you have time, read some of the comments to Yglesias and McArdle's posts. It's amazing to me that some of these people survive one day in the real world. It shows how naive, sheltered and un-informed you can be in a free society.
Also, note the usual "conservatives like pollution" assumptions to most of the comments.
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CO2 is not a pollutant.
NROs Jim Manzi, who always brings in basic business knowledge and analysis rarely considered in the politico punditocracy, exchanges obscurantism phrase-for-phrase just to prove he can do it, then deflates them by spoon-feeding them the bare truth.
If you have time, read some of the comments to Yglesias and McArdle's posts. It's amazing to me that some of these people survive one day in the real world. It shows how naive, sheltered and un-informed you can be in a free society.
Also, note the usual "conservatives like pollution" assumptions to most of the comments.
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