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- From: brian@quake.sylmar.ca.us (Brian K. Yoder)
- Subject: Re: Save the Planet and the Economy at the Same time!
- Message-ID: <C1Ax24.BFF@quake.sylmar.ca.us>
- Organization: Quake Public Access
- References: <1992Dec21.041755.4485@pbhye.PacBell.COM> <72137@cup.portal.com>
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 09:58:48 GMT
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- In article <72137@cup.portal.com> gb@cup.portal.com (Greg A Buechler) writes:
- >If we were to charge the full economic cost to ALL items used, mined,
- >manufactured, etc. we wouldn't be in the present condition at all.
-
- Ahhhh, so you are in favor of laissez faire capitalism then?
-
- >Not just autos, everything is to some degree paid for at costs far
- >below their tru economic cost if you factor in the environmental cost/
- >damage.
-
- That is what free market economics does when it is no crushed by an
- activist government. So, are you in favor of steengthening property
- rights, eliminating government regulation, and lowering/eliminating
- corporate taxes? How about privatizing government-managed natural resources?
-
- >Let's use another example, lets say homes.
-
- >The cost of lumber should include the full cost of extraction, reforest-
- >ation, the polution by the trucks moving the lumber, the waste from the
- >mills, etc. Nails should cost far more. Wallboard, wiring, (do you get
- >the point yet?)
-
- But all of those costs are already factored in (to the extent that the
- government doesn't distort the market to prevent it). According to what
- standard do you judge that nails should be more expensive? More expensive
- than what? Why?
-
- Besides, who the hell do you think you are telling me how much I may or
- may not pay for my nails? Who died and left you dictator?
-
- >Bottom line here..... If we want to curb the destruction of this planet
- > caused by us, we have to incur the true cost of an
- > item, including the full environmental cost.
-
- But your premise that the "planet" is being "destroyed" is false. The "planet"
- is doing just fine.
-
- --Brian
-
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