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Re:Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success by jowea on Friday June 20, 2025 @11:51AM (#44328899)
Charging for an scarce resource instead of letting the tragedy of the commons play out does sound like something obvious to come out of a neoliberal economist yes.
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Re:Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success by EGreg on Friday June 20, 2025 @11:54AM (#44328930)
What is The Economist’s position on carbon taxes?

Update: wow you’re right: https://impact.economist.com/sustainability/net-zero-and-ene...

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Re:Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success by montjoy on Friday June 20, 2025 @12:06PM (#44329081)
That’s an op-ed btw.

> The views expressed in the blog are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Economist Impact or the sponsor.

So not necessarily reflective of The Economist’s position.

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Re:Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success by jcranmer on Friday June 20, 2025 @12:19PM (#44329250)
The Economist has long been pretty outspoken over their preference for a carbon tax over cap-and-trade (see any article they write about carbon emissions).
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Re:Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success by melling on Friday June 20, 2025 @12:02PM (#44329027)
Even Bjorn Lomborg who is against most climate change policies is for a carbon tax.

https://lomborg.com/news/how-avoid-political-pitfalls-carbon...

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Re:Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success by vkou on Friday June 20, 2025 @12:45PM (#44329555)
Carbon taxes have always been a conservative/neo-liberal idea.

Modern 'conservatives' abandoning them tells you a lot about how far their politics have shifted over the past decade.

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Re:Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success by wat10000 on Friday June 20, 2025 @01:46PM (#44330096)
Just like the ACA/Obamacare was very similar to a proposal that came out of the Heritage Foundation, but was universally hated by the people on that side.
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Re:Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success by DangitBobby on Friday June 20, 2025 @12:26PM (#44329346)
Flat rates are not the only way to allocate scarce resources. Generally they would be called "regressive", even.
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Re:Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success by jowea on Friday June 20, 2025 @03:33PM (#44331170)
Well it's a flat rate on car drivers in Manhattan. How regressive is it really?
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