New at Reason: David Harsanyi on the Trouble with the New Cap and Trade Bill

July 1, 2009

If it's about helping "the environment," writes David Harsanyi, suspend reason and salvation is yours. As you've probably heard a lot of smart and compassionate folks tell you lately, doing something—anything!—is better than doing nothing. So the House of Representatives did something. It passed a "cap and trade" bill that would ration energy, destroy productive jobs, levy the largest tax increase in United States history and, for kicks, penalize foreign trade partners who fail to engage in comparable economic suicide.

Read all about it here.