What would ultra-conservative nobel prize winner Milton Friedman do about climate change?
He would do what many, and the growing number across the political spectrum, would do: Tax Carbon
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Friedman’s rational is as important to the public debate on this issue as was his advocating an end of the US-led Drug War many decades ago. His logic - and ally base - again very similar on this issue, are in perfect keeping with the farthest Right political philosophy and economic theory. And on both issues, farthest Right find common ground with, or at least do not inherently conflict with desired result of the farthest Left. On The Drug War, We The Broken System has carried the day, and we have paid dearly for abysmal failure. Let’s see if we can do better on climate change.
Friedman is owning his conservative values of personal accountability and fiscal prudence. If the Republican mainstream were to do the same, we might be able to affect compromise, instead of digging in our heels against its hypocrisy. If you (and I) want to discharge byproducts of incomplete burning into our air and water, you and I should pay the cost of mitigating its harm to others. Doing so may or may not make more folks opt to use clean energy sources, and save that expense, as well.
How very conservative…and radical.