>“This two-tiered approach – going to great lengths to prop up costly fossil fuels like coal plants while blocking the cheapest, cleanest energy sources – won’t lower electricity costs,” Kelly, of the Environmental Defense Fund, said in a statement. “It just saddles families and businesses with higher bills and more asthma-causing pollution.”
Adam Smith and others saw heavy-handed state intervention in the economy as a death-trap, propping up uneconomic industries and shutting out innovative and off-shore competition.
Whatever is wrong with capitalism in its present incarnation will not be fixed by a return to the corrupt practices of the regimes that preceded it.
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>“This two-tiered approach – going to great lengths to prop up costly fossil fuels like coal plants while blocking the cheapest, cleanest energy sources – won’t lower electricity costs,” Kelly, of the Environmental Defense Fund, said in a statement. “It just saddles families and businesses with higher bills and more asthma-causing pollution.”
The Trump regime’s adoption of [Mercantilism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercantilism) has all of the defects that encumbered the original system.
Adam Smith and others saw heavy-handed state intervention in the economy as a death-trap, propping up uneconomic industries and shutting out innovative and off-shore competition.
Whatever is wrong with capitalism in its present incarnation will not be fixed by a return to the corrupt practices of the regimes that preceded it.