{"id":836,"date":"2005-03-24T23:32:23","date_gmt":"2005-03-25T03:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=836"},"modified":"2005-03-24T23:32:23","modified_gmt":"2005-03-25T03:32:23","slug":"you-show-me-a-polluter-and-ill-show-you-a-subsidy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=836","title":{"rendered":"?You show me a polluter and I?ll show you a subsidy.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

via<\/em> dfc talk<\/a> (hat tip Kevin Carson<\/a>)<\/p>\n

?You show me a polluter and I?ll show you a subsidy. I?ll show you a fat cat using political clout to escape the discipline of the free market and load his production costs onto the backs of the public.<\/p>\n

The fact is, free-market capitalism is the best thing that could happen to our environment, our economy, our country. Simply put, true free-market capitalism, in which businesses pay all the costs of bringing their products to market, is the most efficient and democratic way of distributing the goods of the land ? and the surest way to eliminate pollution. Free markets, when allowed to function, properly value raw materials and encourage producers to eliminate waste ? pollution ? by reducing, reusing, and recycling. In a real-market economy, when you make yourself rich, you enrich your community.<\/p>\n

The truth is, I don?t even think of myself as an environmentalist anymore. I consider myself a free-marketeer. Corporate capitalists don?t want free markets, they want dependable profits, and their surest route is to crush the competition by controlling the government.<\/p>\n

Let?s not forget that we taxpayers give away $65 billion every year in subsidies to big oil, and more than $35 billion a year in subsidies to western welfare cowboys. Those subsidies helped create the billionaires who financed the right-wing revolution on Capitol Hill and put George W. Bush in the White House. While communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business.<\/p>\n

John Winthrop, the Moses of the Puritan migration, said that mission was to build a ?city on a hill? ? an example to the world of what nations can accomplish if we work together in community. Winthrop?s 1630 sermon ? arguably the most important speech in American history ? called for his fellow citizens to steer away from the greed and power politics that had corrupted the old-world culture. Winthrop?s words are often quoted by neoconservatives who invariably omit his warning against the temptation to elevate commercial values lest we ?disappear into the lure of real estate.?<\/p>\n

Crimes Against Nature<\/em><\/a>, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, 2004, p 190-197.<\/p>\n

John Winthrop, “A Modell of Christian Charity<\/em><\/a>” (1630)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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