tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post2221102271882742157..comments2024-03-19T07:48:54.021-06:00Comments on Gus Van Horn: Global Warming MarionettesGus Van Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-211706584698139862007-02-05T17:00:00.000-06:002007-02-05T17:00:00.000-06:00Good point, Software Nerd. Thanks for bringing thi...Good point, Software Nerd. Thanks for bringing this up.Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-72784116443267137972007-02-05T16:21:00.000-06:002007-02-05T16:21:00.000-06:00Galileo: The problem with vouchers is that tax-pay...Galileo: The problem with vouchers is that tax-payers continue to fund the schooling, but without the previously available oversight. That problem does not exist in the case of MSAs and HSAs.<br /><br />In education, the right way to go is tax-credits. That way, you are not funding anyone else's folly (nor the undermining of your own values). HSAs and MSAs are pretty much a tax-credit model.<br /><br />The problem with the tax-credit model is that it does not get too much support. Since it does not help those who do not pay tax, the altruists shy away from it.<br /><br />BTW, <a href="http://feeds.opinionjournal.com/~r/wsj/opinion_journal/~3/86636798/">Utah just passed a voucher variant.</a>SNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03953992447839442060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-60813289910572877152007-02-05T11:45:00.000-06:002007-02-05T11:45:00.000-06:00Thanks for bringing that up and reminding me by do...Thanks for bringing that up and reminding me by doing so of the valuable resources on the subject at CapMag. <br /><br />We'll need to think quite a bit about health care reform in the coming couple of years.Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-64277779678153569882007-02-05T11:41:00.000-06:002007-02-05T11:41:00.000-06:00Thanks for the link.Thanks for the link.Galileo Blogshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02592692929747610846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-80882690299491598492007-02-05T11:05:00.000-06:002007-02-05T11:05:00.000-06:00It has been awhile since I considered the subject,...It has been awhile since I considered the subject, but as <a href = "http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=644">this series of articles</a> indicates, there are reasons to think this is (or was) being done in the right way. I don't know off-hand whether these still exist.Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-2912554580803796552007-02-05T10:41:00.000-06:002007-02-05T10:41:00.000-06:00Objectivism is definitely the best tool to prevent...Objectivism is definitely the best tool to prevent making this type of error. Several of my colleagues involved in the electric utility industry who are avowedly "pro free market" have mistakenly subscribed to the idea that greenhouse gas emissions trading is a good thing. Use the word "trading" and they believe it is pro free market.<br /><br />Of course, the base of greenhouse gas emissions trading is arbitrary regulation and interference in the private decisions of electric utilities and manufacturers. Emissions trading is really a tax because emitters have to pay to emit more than a certain amount of carbon dioxide into the air.<br /><br />Whether it is emissions trading or carbon savings accounts, these are clever ploys to get The Right to enact the Democrats' left-wing agenda. Because "The Right" has no consistent, correct philosophical base, they fall for it every time.<br /><br />In a different realm, I wonder if "healthcare savings accounts" act at all to increase freedom in medicine? I have not examined that issue in any kind of detail. One thing is for sure, they seem very complicated and full of many rules and limitations, which makes me wonder if they are like school vouchers: ostensibly "free market", but actually leading to further abridgements of freedom.Galileo Blogshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02592692929747610846noreply@blogger.com