[merrylander]

Originally Posted by jonl

i doubt that ge avoided paying taxes solely - or even largely - due to "green credits." i'm not going to do the research. Perhaps you can enlighten me.

If ge's tax burden was reduced somewhat as an incentive to actually introduce products that actually made a commensurate improvement in environmental impact, i don't think that's a bad thing. If ge's tax burden was reduced to zero because they invented some impractical technology that will never exist outside the laboratory, that's a bad thing.

I don't think it's "corporate welfare" to use tax policy to impel a company to do things that are in the public interest that they would not otherwise do because it is not in their near-term financial interest.

Maybe i'm not the lockstep lefty you fantasize about. We've all got opinions of our own. I'm not trying to have it both ways. I am able to see shades of gray and nuance in life. I think that's a trait the right in general tends to lack.

+1 . . . .