Once you get past the whiny part, I actually agree with a lot of what Friedman says. Love that part at the end about rebating 100% of any revenues from a carbon tax in the form of tax cuts and deficit reduction.
Friedman's problem of course, is that sure you can probably find more than 7 Republicans who'd sign on if this was specified. But, there's no way in hell the Democrats would let that revenue flow out the door without trying to redistribute it to their constituents - the poor, the public (teachers/firefighters) unions, etc.
Instead of excoriating Republicans, why not turn the lens on the Dems? Demand that they make these revenue concessions if for no other reason than to paint the Republican opposition in a bad light? But that's not the way of the NY Times editorial staff.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Friedman gets it partially correct...
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