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**dWSOj26H** · 04-23-2010, 04:31 PM

Ricketyclik was saying that America fails to counter externalities in the name of "freedom", or something along those lines, but didn't back it up with evidence. So when Felch countered with his personal experience, he had more evidence... if America isn't a polluted wasteland why say that Americans' conception of "economic freedom" disregards externalities?

I didn't say it disregards them, rather that it indirectly promoted them and I have plenty of 'evidence' to work with outside what has been mentioned. As an example the US is the largest producer of greenhouse gases (or thereabouts) and complains that reducing such emissions is a limit on economic freedom.

Of course, I digress from the original point, which I said I disagreed with in the first place - for different reasons.

04-23-2010, 04:31 PM	#35
dWSOj26H Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 497 Senior Member	Ricketyclik was saying that America fails to counter externalities in the name of "freedom", or something along those lines, but didn't back it up with evidence. So when Felch countered with his personal experience, he had more evidence... if America isn't a polluted wasteland why say that Americans' conception of "economic freedom" disregards externalities? I didn't say it disregards them, rather that it indirectly promoted them and I have plenty of 'evidence' to work with outside what has been mentioned. As an example the US is the largest producer of greenhouse gases (or thereabouts) and complains that reducing such emissions is a limit on economic freedom. Of course, I digress from the original point, which I said I disagreed with in the first place - for different reasons.
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