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If some moral principle allows the tax collector to confiscate 40 percent of Gates' income, that same moral principle should allow the unemployed lumberjacks of Oregon to confiscate your rich grandchildren's view of the giant redwoods.
(The report was first discussed last week in the Washington Post , which today runs a story on it inside, as does the New York Times .) The top non-local story at the WP is the consummation of the long-awaited deal by which the federal government and the state of California have agreed to pay a lumber company $480 million to preserve Northern California's Headwaters Forest, which had been the largest stand of ancient redwoods in private hands.
--President Clinton, not discontent with a $480 million plan to protect giant redwoods from giant lumber companies.
But it's worth mentioning a separate reason to be skeptical of the conservationist agenda: For all we know, those descendants might prefer inheriting the proceeds of economic development to inheriting the redwoods.)
Based on this faulty assumption, Landsburg then goes on to make the assertion that since our grandchildren are going to be so rich, they won't mind being reduced to seeing things like trees only in photographs, and they "might prefer inheriting the proceeds of economic development to inheriting the redwoods," anyway.