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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (559019)	4/6/2010 3:45:23 AM
From: SilentZ	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577358

>And if we're going to tax carbon, we might as well kiss any hope of economy recovery goodbye ... Republicans said essentially the same thing when we were trying to eliminate acid rain. And stop polluting in the rivers. And establish Medicare. And Medicaid. And Social Security. And impose a minimum wage. There is little to no reason to believe it's true this time, either. And if growing the economy entails raping the earth and poisoning its people, then growing the economy might not even be worth it. -Z

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (559019)	4/6/2010 8:45:10 AM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1577358

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.