Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 16th, 2012
I already attempted to address some objections yesterday, especially the general epistemic problem of finding the perfect price: to reiterate, finding the perfect price with a tax isn’t nearly as important when you’ve already got the worst kind of taxes, as long as you tax within the range of plausible estimates of the perfect price. Here are some answers to […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 16th, 2012
Challenge accepted. I no longer have the pleasure of pestering Wintercow in his office hours, but I can still do that here 🙂 This is an email excerpt to Wintercow that I haven’t published: I was thinking about carbon taxes and looking up estimates of the damage per ton of CO2, and there’s a lot of variability depending […]
Posted in Environment, Politics, Taxation on Aug 16th, 2012
I’ve long been in favor of instituting a carbon tax coupled with dollar-for-dollar reductions in other taxes. I’ve also long argued that this is a pipe dream. It’s not just that any reasonable climate agreement is far off, it’s rather that the offsetting tax reduction part is as likely to happen as Massachusetts is to […]
Posted in Education, Environment, Welfare State on Aug 16th, 2012
I know my puns need a little work, but I get excited from time to time and cannot help it. Hell on Earth is what we are told is coming down the pike if we don’t implement very strict emissions reductions and do it in a very short time. The EPA recently estimated that the […]
