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Milton Friedman on the free-market case for taxing pollution
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A two-minute clip from a 1979 Phil Donahue interview in which Milton Friedman makes the free-market case for taxing pollution. He treats pollution as an externality that can be given a price.
HN commenters use it to show that even the best-known free-market economist supported putting a price on pollution.
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