Environmental policy is not driven by tree-hugging activists, earnest liberal bloggers, or ecologically minded citizens. Instead, it flows from the lobbyists and executives of well-connected multinational corporations and built-for-subsidy startups that see profit in the loan guarantees, handouts, mandates, and tax credits Congress creates in the name of saving the planet.
Monday, March 07, 2011
Putting the Greenback into Green
The Federal state is the largest organized racket in the world. Its primary domestic purpose is to take money from the weak and hand it to the well connected and powerful. Lots of high sounding names are attached to this rent seeking: "Compassion", "Equality", "Diversity", "Green". But at it's base it is just raw power. Domestic fascism, really. Tim Carney explains how the planet is 'saved' by Wall Street rent seekers and their K street lobbyists.
Environmental policy is not driven by tree-hugging activists, earnest liberal bloggers, or ecologically minded citizens. Instead, it flows from the lobbyists and executives of well-connected multinational corporations and built-for-subsidy startups that see profit in the loan guarantees, handouts, mandates, and tax credits Congress creates in the name of saving the planet.
Environmental policy is not driven by tree-hugging activists, earnest liberal bloggers, or ecologically minded citizens. Instead, it flows from the lobbyists and executives of well-connected multinational corporations and built-for-subsidy startups that see profit in the loan guarantees, handouts, mandates, and tax credits Congress creates in the name of saving the planet.
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