Re:Soon, Cars in Denmark Will Only Be Taxed at 100% (2017)
by TheCoelacanth on Saturday January 20, 2018 @04:25PM
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So if I have asthma I can sue all drivers who drove in the area where I grew up and all coal plants operating in the area where I grew up for contributing to the development of my asthma with each one paying a few cents? That sounds insane.
The libertarian approach is to privatize recovery of social costs so that instead of government internalizing the aggregated social cost into the transaction, each individual who can demonstrate an unlicensed adverse impact from the transaction has a personal cause of action to recover damages resulting therefrom.
A particularly generous libertarian might recognize a class action as an appropriate mass venue for aggregating such claims.