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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (559019)4/6/2010 8:45:10 AM
From: RetiredNow  Read Replies (4) of 1577670
 
Not really. When you tax a bad thing, good things get created to replace the bad thing.

For example, we taxed the crap out of tobacco, and sure it has hurt tobacco profits. However, it has saved millions of lives at far greater benefit to our economy than the costs in tobacco profits.

You guys on this thread simply fail to account for the costs of externalities related to carbon, including the trillions we spend on oil related wars, pollution from gasoline vehicles and the related medical bills, and environmental damage from carbon based energy mining and drilling.

It's always the fatal flaw in GOP cost benefit calculations. You always calculate the costs of a policy shift, but never the benefits.
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