Government Needs No Money to Curtail Pollution
People often complain that government isn’t spending enough money fighting pollution. Even many economists repeat this complaint. That’s very odd, because standard market failure theory tells us that governments don’t need any money to fight pollution. Why not? Simple: In standard market failure theory, governments are supposed to tax pollution! Such taxes simultaneously reduce pollution and […]
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