A few of the things that the Koch brothers have fought against: - Interventionist Wars - Militarization of the Police - Long sentences for non-violent crimes If you are celebrating David Koch's death you don't care about the issues. You are just brainwashed.
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So we have to correct that to actually achieve a free market. Now, the obvious way to achieve that would be taxing those industries... But subsiding the competitors may be an analogous answer, and also politically easier to implement?
Yeah, I'm not opposed in principle to a carbon tax, but I suspect the subsidies are the result of the politically hazardous fact that a true carbon tax would actually be quite regressive. Just about everything would get more expensive for just about everyone
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Yeah, that's my intuition as well
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This is the best article I've read on how to lower carbon for the world through US policy. Carbon tax/subsidy are enough to get electricity generation over the finish line, but other industries are way too far behind to decarbonize with that alone.https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/15/how-to-decarbonize-america-and-the-world/ …
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