Saturday, June 25, 2011

Ron Bailey of "Reason" magazine: You know how to determine if X caused Y? Just determine whether Y happened

Blog: With libertarians like this, who needs statists
There you have it. The science editor of perhaps the premier "libertarian" magazine in the country advocates a global tax, a "harmonized" tax, on all fossil fuels -- a tax that should "gradually raise" over time. Also note that the only scientific evidence he cited was for warming trends, and not any evidence to show that those warming trends were man-caused rather than natural, or that any cure is not worse than the disease.

With libertarians advocating worldwide taxes, the next things we might expect to see are anarchists protesting cuts to government and Republicans supporting Great Society programs.

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