“With the [heat] you’re getting it is probably pretty tempting to try and avoid any further media on this, but I think that’d be the wrong approach that cedes the issue to deniers.”
From the Washington Times:
“With the [heat] you’re getting it is probably pretty tempting to try and avoid any further media on this, but I think that’d be the wrong approach that cedes the issue to deniers.”
From the Washington Times:
Obviously written by an academic without private business experience. Whether the costs can be passed on to customers depends totally on the type and size of the business, the industry, competition, fixed costs, government regulation, location both locally and by state, taxes, unions, and all the other income and expenses that make up a balance sheet.
Simply, if greenmail is too expensive and the business cannot afford it, the business closes. These costs, along with legal costs and environmental regulations are sometimes specifically used for that purpose. Just look at the coal industry, which could not pass on these costs since the competition would not allow it. It may be used to enrich the environmental groups and their cronies as a source of funding for their pet projects.
“Big corporations have the deep pockets to pay greenmail, and then charge it to their clients …”
Higher costs cannot be charged to clients, it’s impossible:
Papa John and “Passing On”
https://mises.org/blog/papa-john-and-passing
“The idea that the increased cost will be passed on to the consumer by the employer is an illustration of perhaps the single most widespread fallacy on taxation: that businessmen can simply shift their higher costs forward onto the consumers in the form of higher prices. All the economic theory expounded in this book shows the error of this doctrine. For the price of a given product is set by the demand schedules of the consumers. There is nothing in higher costs or higher taxes which, per se, increases these schedules; hence, any change in selling prices, whether higher or lower, will decrease the revenues of the business involved. … We thus arrive at this significant conclusion: no tax (not just an income tax) can ever be shifted forward.”
Big corporations have the deep pockets to pay greenmail, and then charge it to their clients, while individuals can only be destroyed. Besides, according to the radical environmentalists who are really watermelons, corporations only exist to abuse and destroy the poor working man, i.e. they are statists, socialists, and communists.