On 14/05/14 11:52, Jim Birch wrote: > > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > whether a user-pays approach to everything is really in our best > interests in the long term > > > I'm not in favour of user-pays as some kind of general moral/economic > principle, but I am strongly in favour of the Pigovian approach to > things that cause problems, eg, congestion or CO2. Pricing does > modify behaviour, especially in the long-term. > > Doesn't everything become a problem along these lines as society grows? Now we're going to have a $7 co-payment to visit the GP, which is just as much as disincentive as it is genuinely a co-payment... User-pays to call a government hotline next?
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