{"id":196371,"date":"2008-05-02T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/02\/i-disagree-with-paul-krugman\/"},"modified":"2008-05-02T17:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T22:16:00","slug":"i-disagree-with-paul-krugman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/02\/i-disagree-with-paul-krugman\/","title":{"rendered":"I Disagree With Paul Krugman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his latest post, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/02\/opinion\/02krugman.html\">he thinks that Barack Obama gave too much credit to the Republicans in his Fox interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I agree with him on that.  The ideas in question have been floating around in academic circles, and have been proposed by politicians on both sides for years.<\/p>\n<p>What I disagree with is his classification of emissions trading as a successful policy.<\/p>\n<p>Emissions trading is not a success relative to a tax of some sort.  <\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve never been shown to be more effective than a tax on emissions, they reduce revenues available to government, and they are more difficult to administer, which increases the regulatory load, and hence costs to taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, if you think that mortgage backed securities are a morass of corrupt arbitrage, just wait until Wall Street gets its hands on actual dirt.<\/p>\n<p>Carbon trading is a solution, it&#8217;s just a bad one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his latest post, he thinks that Barack Obama gave too much credit to the Republicans in his Fox interview. I agree with him on that. The ideas in question have been floating around in academic circles, and have been proposed by politicians on both sides for years. What I disagree with is his classification &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1079,985,983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-regulation","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196371"}],"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=196371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}