Gene Callahan has a good piece in the Freeman, which I think is a very good complement to a piece I had in there a while back. Here’s a nice sum-up sliver from his:
As in all debates over public versus private choice, it’s inappropriate to measure a realistic free-market response to global warming against an idealized government program. We must try to envision what real people would do if their property rights were respected and compare that scenario with the probable outcome of actual politicians in today’s world being given a blank check in the name of saving the earth.
Blank check, indeed. And in a federalist system, that blank check is currently being written at all levels of government.
-Max Borders
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