Libertarians and Carbon Taxes

Posted on July 28, 2009 by shaunmiller

An interesting post arguing that libertarians should support a carbon tax.

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3 Responses to Libertarians and Carbon Taxes

  1. thekillerj's avatar thekillerj says:
    July 31, 2009 at 11:03 am

    It says libertarians support the “standard scientific evidence of global warming” or something like that. I didn’t realize libertarians unequivocally support that.

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    • shaunmiller's avatar shaunmiller says:
      July 31, 2009 at 12:27 pm

      Some do and some don’t. I think most do but the typical libertarian solution is that the market should solve it, not taxes.

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      • Kenny's avatar Kenny says:
        August 9, 2009 at 10:26 pm

        Shaun – Thanks for the link.

        killerj – What I wrote was, “libertarians who believe the basic claims of the standard scientific view on global warming should support” the policy I outlined; I am aware that some libertarians question the standard scientific view, and that’s why I included that proviso, but their questioning it has no logical connection with their libertarianism. There is no reason why one cannot be a libertarian and believe in global warming; global warming is a matter of fact, whereas libertarianism is a matter of value.

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