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> Imagine going to these same people and saying "Good news, you can keep your coal plants, we will just tax you more than how much it would cost to shut them do
by ohazi 6y ago
> Imagine going to these same people and saying "Good news, you can keep your coal plants, we will just tax you more than how much it would cost to shut them down!"
...thus incentivizing the operator to shut down the plant of their own accord. This was the desired outcome anyway, so what's the problem?
- yongjik 6y agoThe problem is that politics is less like a parent telling the kid "Well, if you don't eat your broccoli then no dessert for you, your choice," and more like a kid telling the parent "If you don't take me to the beach this weekend I demand two beach trips next weekend!" I.e., if policy A is already unpopular, bringing up an even less popular policy B won't help you.