I recall an old Ali G episode where Ali asks an animal rights activist/moral philosopher if he would eat a chicken to save the life of a chicken. If there is any such animal as a progressive principle, such will be tested in the coming months and years with commitments to environmentalism.
In this post, I highlighted a rare overlap between progressives and free-marketeers (MFs) — that is, neither of us likes corporate welfare. But what happens when progressive hostility towards corporate welfare runs smack into Green fetishism? In other words, will progressives be silent on incentives if they go to support companies that recycle? Quite the conundrum.
(My guess is that recycling has become such a religion for progressives that they’ll escort the pigs to the trough without a peep of protest.)
-Max Borders
I think this is an easy answer: planners plan.
Progressives dislike corporate welfare for different reasons than we do. They are mostly focused on those evil corporations “paying their fair share” in order to finance more of their beloved government programs. If corporate welfare programs involve government spending to better “plan” society as they see fit,(especially if it goes to their religion of green) then they will happily embrace it.
My prediction: Lefties will not make one peep of protest over corporate welfare handouts and tax breaks to “green” companies, and will in fact come out in favor of it.