link to original reddit post by /u/n0lifeismylife
If you don't believe in climate change for the sake of argument just keep in mind a significant portion of statists do. The goal here is to convince the statists to embrace our ideals and to show them the efficacy of our ways.
Right now there's really about 4 solutions being offered that would quell the issue I'll list them in the order economists and statists believe will work best
- Carbon Tax
- Renewable Energy
- Carbon Capture
- Nuclear power
I'll begin with the big baddie of the lot that we all hate and never want implemented and how I believe it can actually be used to increase liberty.
I'll be taking a page out of Milton Friedman's book with negative income tax (even though he recanted) to eliminate the Welfare State. Friedmans idea was that if we used negative income tax we could eventually reduce overall taxation by gutting the welfare state.
However what I believe we can do instead is add a twist here. We can convince the statists to replace income tax with a carbon tax OR instead of a carbon tax we can convince them to apply reductions to income tax for less carbon used.
Ideally replacing income tax would be ideal because raising income tax back up is almost impossible and eventually the free market should make carbon tax useless anyways. I think we can use the idea that carbon tax is fully supported as an excuse to replace the current tax system with one that will eventually die off naturally anyways.
I'll cover the last 4 in one go
We can advocate for things in the same vein. Cutting subsidies to companies allows us to convince the statists to further cut income tax. We can advocate for deregulation of Nuclear energy for one but I think the thing that would seal our ideals the best:
Removing all taxes on those industries.
Right now the statists advocate for subsidies because they love stealing money and acting like they doing a good think. BUT what they ignore is that subsidies is just redistribution of the taxes they already stole. If we advocate for the full removal of taxes in several major industries not just to the corporations but to all employees and to all the products involved. We can then argue that they will receive "more money" than any subsidies even though all we are doing is just allowing less people to be robbed blind by the fuckers in washington and reducing their power.
These are just some ideas on how we can increase liberty and move towards a voluntarist society in the long run of mine. Curious to know everyones thoughts.
Edit fixed some typos