tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15768887.post7211847967396313894..comments2024-03-09T18:57:10.942+13:00Comments on Liberty Scott: Some answers to Jeanette's questionsLibertyscotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12741049550997300680noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15768887.post-32045659699559775002007-06-07T01:00:00.000+12:002007-06-07T01:00:00.000+12:00"Do you think there should be a global cap on gree..."Do you think there should be a global cap on greenhouse gas emissions given there is some increase in global temperatures that would make life rather difficult?"<BR/><BR/>If there was an increase that would generate net negative effects on humanity and the cap would be less destructive than those effects, then yes. However, you need to demonstrate that government intervention to institute such Libertyscotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12741049550997300680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15768887.post-59846670194368271082007-06-06T21:27:00.000+12:002007-06-06T21:27:00.000+12:003 questions for you if you don't mind.Do you think...3 questions for you if you don't mind.<BR/><BR/>Do you think there should be a global cap on greenhouse gas emissions given there is some increase in global temperatures that would make life rather difficult?<BR/><BR/>Do you believe that people should pay the full costs incurred by their activities including adverse environmental costs or should the taxpayer have to pick up the tab years down thesustentohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04143099272591498281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15768887.post-54809088906497665862007-06-06T14:01:00.000+12:002007-06-06T14:01:00.000+12:00great work as per usualgreat work as per usualChris Bishophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01712863405985432460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15768887.post-52266620269575744332007-06-05T12:48:00.000+12:002007-06-05T12:48:00.000+12:00Very good blogging mate!Very good blogging mate!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15768887.post-47319179167484213022007-06-05T09:11:00.000+12:002007-06-05T09:11:00.000+12:00Great comments Scott.It's irritating that parliame...Great comments Scott.<BR/><BR/>It's irritating that parliament lets Jeanette live in her economic fantasyworld.<BR/><BR/>Put up the minimum wage AND increase benefits?<BR/><BR/>In one fell swoop, you've just made it impossible/undesirable for beneficiaries to get off welfare (fewer unskilled jobs available and a marginal tax rate discouraging paid employment)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15768887.post-32871298732683648462007-06-05T02:13:00.000+12:002007-06-05T02:13:00.000+12:00It's hardly a consumer/supplier relationship thoug...It's hardly a consumer/supplier relationship though. The supply of roads is determined bureaucratically, and the price is by and large an average price than does not vary according to quality of road, level of demand or the cost of supplying that capacity (the cost of capital is ignored).<BR/><BR/>It is socialist when roads are not treated as an economic good, but something to buy favours for (Libertyscotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12741049550997300680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15768887.post-71390779263969432412007-06-05T01:49:00.000+12:002007-06-05T01:49:00.000+12:00I must disagree with you comment "the socialist wa...I must disagree with you comment "the socialist way that some key infrastructure (especially roads) are managed, funded and charged for."<BR/>The development of roads in this country has always been funded on a substantially user pays basis. Rates were originally a very good way of capturing the increased land values arising from road improvements, including special rates for properties that Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com