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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Subject: Re: Is car pooling for real? (was Re: Are bikes really less polluting?)
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- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:24:30 GMT
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- In article <4593@balrog.ctron.com>, smith@ctron.com (Larry Smith) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul24.194747.8927@cco.caltech.edu>, rkrii@cco.caltech.edu (Roberk Kim Rickenbrode II) writes:
- >>There are movements now to have the sources accept some of these costs --
- >>internalizing the externalities -- by taxes of some form. While this
- >
- >"Taxes" are the answer only if the question was "how do we louse things up?"
- >"Taxes" aren't used to address the problems, they are used to support the
- >welfare state, the national debt or that corporate welfare system called the
- >national defense industry, which between them account for something like 90%
- >of the Federal budget. The only real "solutions" that have come out of gov't
- >regulation come in the form of legal requirements, such as emissions require-
- >ments.
-
- So tell us, Larry, what means other than taxation do you propose to use to
- internalize the externalities? If you can come up with something novel and
- substantive instead of simply your usual rantings, you ought to be able to get
- a Ph.D. in economics out of it.
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