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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I knew there had to be more to the recalls - to destroy a company using global warming as an excuse is hella bullshit. This is really about unions and revenge over Volkswagen not supporting Obama's green agenda:

http://www.autonews.com/article/20140214/OEM01/140219901/obama-weighs-in-on-contentious-union-vote-at-volkswagen-plant

http://dailycaller.com/2015/10/13/volkswagen-lobbied-obama-administration-for-green-tax-credits/

Yet GM, aka 'Government Motors' recall of their ignition switches directly led to the deaths of people, and escaped with a fine and no charges filed.

Just gross.[/quote]

Big Business breaks [b]the law;[/b] Republican shill blames Obama.  Just another Monday.[/quote]

There's your issue right there. The ridiculous legislation.

Think of a buffet.  In Constitutional Republic allows you to go to many buffets with many choices. The business owner has freedom to choose what's on his/her buffet and to change it at will.  With Communism, there is one type of buffet with the same food choices. Don't complain; you might 'disappear'. With democratic socialism, there are many buffets (come privately owned, some government-owned) with many choices, but those choices are heavily regulated, i.e. you can serve only foods that are deemed healthy and/or approved to serve. [/quote]

Sigh.  How to explain an externality to someone who views governments in terms of buffets.

When you burn a gallon of gas, you pollute the air, water, and land that belong to all of us.  Therefore you owe us an amount of money equal to what it takes to clean it.  We could just put a tax on a gallon of gasoline equal to what it takes to clean up the pollution it produces.  Then we would not need to regulate fuel efficiency.  Let's just say the price of the buffet needs to cover the repair to the toilet you clog afterward.

But you would go apeshit if you had to pay the real cost of fuel including environmental cleanup.  So we compromise and ask auto makers to ever-so-gradually improve fuel efficiency.  You should be damn glad, too.  Because the fuel cost of that Suburban you drive would skyrocket if the rest of the world wasn't driving Camrys and Civics.

So yes, it is only ridiculous to the extent that it's a poor substitute for the indisputable economic principle of taxing gas to pay for the externality.[/quote]

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