{"id":193195,"date":"2009-01-10T21:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T02:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/10\/when-i-agree-with-someone-like-this\/"},"modified":"2009-01-10T21:11:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T02:11:00","slug":"when-i-agree-with-someone-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/10\/when-i-agree-with-someone-like-this\/","title":{"rendered":"When I Agree With Someone Like This&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article_email\/SB123146091530566335-lMyQjAxMDI5MzAxOTQwNjkwWj.html\">Exxon CEO is right in endorsing a carbon tax over cap and trade<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s simpler, and harder to game, and the net effect is the same, with more revenue flowing to government, and less to Wall Street bankers who want commissions for creating &#8220;Carbon Backed Securities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s already proving a failure in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But the Exxon CEO is right in endorsing a carbon tax over cap and trade. It&#8217;s simpler, and harder to game, and the net effect is the same, with more revenue flowing to government, and less to Wall Street bankers who want commissions for creating &#8220;Carbon Backed Securities.&#8221; It&#8217;s already proving a failure in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1135,985,983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-regulation","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}