knb comments on Less wrong economic policy - Less Wrong

6 Post author: gworley 09 June 2009 08:11PM

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Comment author: MichaelBishop 10 June 2009 02:13:49PM 4 points [-]

I strongly agree. Many of my friends, nearly all of them "liberals," exhibit knee-jerk opposition to things like road congestion pricing, and pigou taxes on alcohol, cigarettes, and fossil fuels.

Comment author: knb 10 June 2009 04:19:15PM 1 point [-]

America does have pigouvian taxes on all of these things. At the federal level, and additionally at the state level.