The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(07-28-2020, 10:05 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: The late arch-conservative Milton Friedman offered a simple solution to pollution: tax the Hell out of it.  I assume that taxes that he would accept on pollution would include tariffs. So clean up your manufacturing act, or pay the tax collector. Buy stuff from clean sources or pay for the privilege of polluting Third World  environments that you never have to visit.

I could endorse that.  Add it to the blue agenda.  The elites will complain, but we shall see who is in earnest.

(07-28-2020, 10:05 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: The solutions for stopping global warming will include giving much of what many of us consider the American way of life -- single-family houses, heavy use of vehicles, and much of our meat consumption. Maybe the realities of the last High gave many Americans the best of both worlds -- the spaciousness of pioneer conditions with the prosperity of industrialization. Privileged youth came to the belief that they could get whatever they wanted and could step on anyone who got in the way or demanded anything more out of life than bare survival. 

Convincing people that consumption does not equal happiness will be a tough sell.