This bill ensures those in power increase their power. The transfer of wealth continues and wealth inequality grows. From their point of view, mission accomplished. They don’t care if people or the Earth itself are harmed. They actually enjoy that it harms others.
I keep saying this, but I have to say it again. They are just evil. When you accept this, everything about the right wing is easy to understand.
m101•3h ago
There are so many problems with this article.
Let's just go with the headline- so it might raises energy bills by $250, but on the other hand cut taxes by $500?
Most things that require subsidies don't work because they are more expensive solutions than the alternatives that exist in the market. Supporting those programmes will necessarily cost more overall (hence the 500 number I made up above is bigger than the 250 number they made up).
micromacrofoot•2h ago
tzs•2h ago
Markets can get stuck in a local minimum where even though there is another local minimum that is lower than the current local minimum the market on its own won't move to that lower minimum because the cost to get out of the current local minimum is more than individual actors can afford.
Also in the case of clean energy there are benefits that aren't captured in the market price of clean energy or the price of fossil fuels, such as the effects of pollution. Pollution from fossil fuels leads to a lot of health costs in humans and also significantly reduces crop yields for example.