Comments on: Ten observations about conservatives and climate change http://www.standupeconomist.com/blog/economics/ten-observations-about-conservatives-and-climate-change/ What is (and isn't) funny about economics Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:25:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jeffrey Hyman http://www.standupeconomist.com/blog/economics/ten-observations-about-conservatives-and-climate-change/comment-page-1/#comment-12640 Jeffrey Hyman Fri, 29 Apr 2011 05:50:15 +0000 http://www.standupeconomist.com/?p=1542#comment-12640 68 months & counting until Dec 2016 tipping point of no return. http://www.onehundredmonths.org/ humanity terminated in 89 years. http://www.bclocalnews.com/okanagan_similkameen/vernonmorningstar/opinion/letters/120387379.html venus syndrome is dead certainty. http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/hansen-venus-syndrome-is-a-dead-certainty/ I'm scared Yoram. Is there some act of civil disobedience or something I could do that could get people's attention? 68 months & counting until Dec 2016 tipping point of no return.
http://www.onehundredmonths.org/
humanity terminated in 89 years.
http://www.bclocalnews.com/okanagan_similkameen/vernonmorningstar/opinion/letters/120387379.html
venus syndrome is dead certainty.
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/hansen-venus-syndrome-is-a-dead-certainty/
I’m scared Yoram.
Is there some act of civil disobedience or something I could do that could get people’s attention?

]]> By: Yoram http://www.standupeconomist.com/blog/economics/ten-observations-about-conservatives-and-climate-change/comment-page-1/#comment-9716 Yoram Wed, 16 Feb 2011 05:33:48 +0000 http://www.standupeconomist.com/?p=1542#comment-9716 Amen! Amen!

]]> By: Curt Shepherd http://www.standupeconomist.com/blog/economics/ten-observations-about-conservatives-and-climate-change/comment-page-1/#comment-9660 Curt Shepherd Mon, 14 Feb 2011 18:43:25 +0000 http://www.standupeconomist.com/?p=1542#comment-9660 I an a natural resource / environmental economist with a very conservative political history. I am also a recent graduate. I tell you this so that you might understand from where I come. Even though I am politically slightly right of Ghengis Khan, I cannot understand how anybody could find fault with the concept of taxing those things we want less of and reducing or eliminating taxes on those things we want more of. Taxing labor, income or profits creates DWL to some degree by reducing the quantity that would be created without the intervention. Conservatives have long argued this and economists have certainly drawn enough supply/demand models on the whiteboard to convince the thousands of students who remained awake during lecture (thousands may be a reach, I too have taught principles of economics at 8:00 Monday mornings). Why create DWL in markets we need to grow, if per capita income is to keep pace? I have always advocated "sin taxes" for those goods and services I don't use, so I cannot in good conscience fail to support taxes for those goods and services I should use less! Go B.C. show us conservatives the way!! I an a natural resource / environmental economist with a very conservative political history. I am also a recent graduate. I tell you this so that you might understand from where I come.

Even though I am politically slightly right of Ghengis Khan, I cannot understand how anybody could find fault with the concept of taxing those things we want less of and reducing or eliminating taxes on those things we want more of. Taxing labor, income or profits creates DWL to some degree by reducing the quantity that would be created without the intervention. Conservatives have long argued this and economists have certainly drawn enough supply/demand models on the whiteboard to convince the thousands of students who remained awake during lecture (thousands may be a reach, I too have taught principles of economics at 8:00 Monday mornings).

Why create DWL in markets we need to grow, if per capita income is to keep pace? I have always advocated “sin taxes” for those goods and services I don’t use, so I cannot in good conscience fail to support taxes for those goods and services I should use less!

Go B.C. show us conservatives the way!!

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