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cliffelam  ·  4148 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: When What’s Costly is Cheap — and Vice Versa

Huh? Generally people like to talk about "pricing externalities" but they generally mean they want to price YOUR externalities and not theirs.

For example, they will say: you don't pay enough for gas due to blah blah blah. But then they don't have a replacement number of kids and would freak if you upped their social security contribution.

I think you can make arguments, though, for free bus service to avoid building new roads, to cite an example of something that is not free but seems to be.

Did I understand the question?

-XC