There’s nothing wrong with write offs, about half of my income is paid to the government. I will always do everything I can to minimize my tax liability, and it’s natural to do so.
> The climate comments here are virtue signaling. Like it or not it was completely legal.
Laws come and go. It’s not hard to think of things that seem blatantly wrong now, that were formerly legal. Do we describe those that wanted the law changes that have since occurred as ‘virtue signalling’?
Making money by pouring oil into the environment seems pretty clearly wrong.
I’d argue that the behaviour of the protagonists in the article is virtue signalling, they are seemingly doing good things for their community while actually damaging the place.
What a convenient way to shut down a valid argument. The whole thrust is that the incentives are encouraging negative externalities by legalizing them and providing tax breaks for polluting. I don't like it, and it should be called out - more people need to be aware that these things keep happening because it's benefitting some rich knob.