Among the many reasons conservatives favor small government is the vast efficiency the private sector has in deploying resources. You never see a firm paying $37 for screws, or for a $7,622 coffee maker, or for $640 toilet seats like our government actually did in the 1990s.
The private sector can also fire their worst employees. Just to give one example, thanks to tenure, union rules, and other privileges the government has granted them, firing a bad teacher is no easy task. New York City alone spends $22 million a year to keep problem teachers in “rubber rooms,” which are temporary holding facilities for teachers accused of various kinds of misconduct who are awaiting an official hearing. That process can take years.
Recently, Donald Trump has been under fire for pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement. But what were the terms of the deal for its projected reward? Anyone who looked at the figures noticed that they weren’t pretty. The Agreement required payments of $100 billion per year from the developed world until the year 2100 to reduce global temperatures by 0.2 degrees Celsius.
Whoopie.
But that might not be the biggest example of environmental waste a government could muster. In Denmark, a new environmental project has been embarked on that will inevitably require government funding to meet its lofty and expensive goals:
The company that created this carbon capturing plant in Switzerland, Climeworks, says it will take 250,000 of these facilities, at $4.5 million a piece, to reduce global CO2 by just 1%. That would cost $1.125 TRILLION dollars.
Yet, the same CO2 reduction could be achieved by planting less than $2 billion worth of trees.This is why people don’t trust our policymakers on global warming. Instead of taking the easiest or cheapest or least disruptive route to addressing it, we’re pushed toward the costliest solutions. Corporatists and politicians are, plain and simply, looking at climate change as a cash cow and a way to further fleece taxpayers.
H/T Unbiased America
Nuts, right?
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