Economic Meltdown (seconda parte)

[eppie]

I believe a tax rebate is a subsidy, but paid once per year (or often as a reduction to energy bills). I'm not against solar panels, I'm against distorting a market (especially on the consumption side) to make something illogical, logical. If you help a producer (solar panel manufacturer) with some start up loans/grants it becomes a limited investment, but, when you intercede in the operational cost then you've created a dependency on the subsidy. The producer still needs to create a viable cost effective solution and market it to the consumer.

This subsidy should of course not be forever. Just to create a change. Smart governments will never subsidize things that will never become a viable alternative.

I believe that leadership, and an informed electorate will make the correct decision, and the coercion of government force is not necessary.

Having an informed electorate is more unlikely than having non-egoistic politicians.

Rather, I believe the approach should be to make the case, educate the electorate and lead them to making an informed decision.

But if in most western countries the budgets for schooling are already going down for decades?

I'm writing to you and looking at a reply card next to me from my local township asking my opinion on whether they should pass an ordinance prohibiting people from feeding the deer. You see, we periodically have a bumper crop of wild deer who eat expensive ornamental shrubs, and then they choose to hire people to go shoot them. But that's because, I live in a more suburban area that pretty much does not allow hunting. I said "no", of course, and I'll go attend the meeting and lend my voice to the idea that it is absurd to make feeding wild animals a crime. It's foolish to feed them, but it's not a crime and I don't want my government spending my money to run around catching and chiding fools.

Having a law, and enforcing it actively are two different things. In a 'good' society, just having a law that prohibits something is enough to make to a change....without having to spend money on extra police action.