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I don't agree that a carbon tax would be an economy killer if it replaced a different tax instead of being applied on top of existing taxes. In fact, the good thing about a carbon tax is not that it addresses climate change (it doesn't, unless we're talking about taxing carbon across the entire developed and developing world). It's that it shifts a portion of our tax system away from production onto consumption and because it stands as a price proxy for the national security expenses we incur to keep the global oil trade flowing.
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Obamacare’s fix for an American health care system that the federal government long ago broke, is to give the federal government far more power over American health care; that its solution to escalating health costs is to mandate greater health benefits (and, hence, higher costs); and that its solution to the pricey overreliance on pre-paid health plans — offered by insurance companies in lieu of real insurance — is to have the government require Americans to buy those pre-paid health plans under penalty of law.
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