Conservative Case for Fighting Human-Induced Climate Change

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A Conservative Case for Climate Action

By MARTIN S. FELDSTEIN, TED HALSTEAD and N. GREGORY MANKIW
FEB. 8, 2017

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[Classic Conservative]

Yeah, no.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

I'm not certain that carbon tax is the best approach, but I'll happily support it over the nothing we'll likely see from fake-president Pussygrabber and his American Nazi party.

[(Still) muted by Kalwejt until March 31]

Yeah, no.

[The_Doctor]

FF plan with a few tweaks.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Color me skeptical that putting a 40¢ per gallon tax on gasoline would ever get passed by Congress, especially the current one. (About 20 pounds of CO₂ are emitted per gallon of gasoline used, so each dollar per ton of CO₂ adds a cent per gallon of gas.) Color me even more skeptical that it would be mostly rebated on a per capita basis.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all in favor of using a carbon tax the primary method of reducing emissions, but the plan presented here has no chance of getting more than token GOP support. It simply contains far too many betes noires to get Republican support.

[TJ in Oregon]

I'd start by rewriting the nuclear regulatory rules and subsidize the construction of new nuclear plants. That's a much better use of resources than paying lip service to the problem by subsidizing solar and wind. It won't help the coal miners, but it should at least prevent massive cost increases for the rest of American industry.

[ApatheticAustrian]

carbon tax would have been a typical conservative idea for a conservative goal.

before the republicans lost their way, imho.

preserving our ecosystem without getting all hyperbole....seems like a good deal.

[Goldwater]

Yeah, I can support this. Carbon taxes make more sense and are more fair than most other form of taxation, IMO. I would also eliminate all current subsides on the oil industry and put that money towards alternative forms of energy, including nuclear.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

The conservative case for climate action is that conservatives have to live on this planet too.

[OSR stands with Israel]

I would support a carbon tax if we lowered income taxes by that same percentage

[BlueSwan]

I'm not certain that carbon tax is the best approach, but I'll happily support it over the nothing we'll likely see from fake-president Pussygrabber and his American Nazi party.

[Devout Centrist]

Looks good overall, but a citizen's dividend seems really inefficient.

[Intell]

The conservative case for climate action is that conservatives have to live on this planet too.

[Person Man]

Something this simple could be easily sabatoged once started and conservatives would never actually support it. This seems to be the centerpeice of Obamacare for the environment. That is, something that is better than just punting, conservatives will always oppose it and might just cancel it once they are able to.

[All Along The Watchtower]

Presumably "conservative" isn't synonymous with the fossil-fuel industry so this shouldn't be a problem, right?