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A carbon tax is the only way

HSG — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:56:43 +0000

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A carbon tax is the only way we can save our mother.

Friedman hires a guy to do

NCD — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 18:38:20 +0000

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Friedman hires a guy to do the math, Friedman 'interprets' it. Does he plan a column on the SS/Medicare returns for people who die before collecting a penny of benefits?

Are they gaming the system or did the system game them? Or is that the way insurance works, some get more than they paid in, some less, some none?

If privatized, we are all on our own, and the only sure outcome is Wall Street will skim hundreds of billions in fees, if they don't crash the program entirely within a decade.

It's all part of his

Michael Maiello — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:44:00 +0000

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It's all part of his "serious" pose. Really, I blame the stupid think tank that made the false claim about Medicare's inflation adjusted rate of return in the first place. It gives ammo to people like Friedman who think that asking people to make due with less is always the adult thing to do.

I have no idea why he alleges

Richard Day — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:31:05 +0000

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I have no idea why he alleges these things.

Obviously he writes for money, just like all the others.

But today he is proposing a carbon tax?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/opinion/sunday/friedman-how-to-put-america-back-together-again.html?ref=opinion

I never really liked the guy's politics; but I at least can understand why he wanted war in Iraq--he sees foreign relations as having one main goal and that is the protection of Israel.

But this crap?

I really do not understand why he comes to these conclusions domestically.