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Old 10-20-2008, 01:22 PM   #5 (permalink)
aceventura3
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Originally Posted by Derwood View Post
there is always cost to stopping pollution. there was a big cost when the government said you can't billow black smoke into the air 24/7 and the economy survived
Don't dispute that there are costs. The question is more along the lines of understanding the trade-offs. We could shut down all coal power plants today, but do we want too? As Obama constantly talks about "taxing the rich", isn't this going to be a "tax" on every American - a regressive "tax"? I guess he can socialize the system and make sure every American has a certain portion of energy at no costs - except for the "rich" of course.
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