On December 11, 1980, US President Jimmy Carter signed into law the legislation that created a $1.6 billion environmental “superfund” that would help clean up chemical spills and toxic waste dumps. Libertarians throughout the United States complained and said that if people actually wanted pollution cleaned up, they would donate the money or the time themselves to clean it up. Or better yet, the Libertarians said that if it was really important to clean up toxic spills, the “Market” would take care of it. America and the IRS didn’t need to use force to steal from them to pay for the clean up of something they didn’t cause and weren’t interested in fixing. Libertarians really said this, and are still saying this forty years later.
I hope they like mutant cockroaches, because this is how you get mutant cockroaches... and also lots of very sick humans. I was trying to be funny, but it’s hard to be funny when you’re talking about toxic waste and the callous humans who don’t want to clean it up. Share Twisted-History. And I’ll try to be funnier next time.
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