The burdens of regulation fall disproportionately on the poor (first in a series)

(8) Set a date for banning incandescent light bulbs.

This from former Vice President Al Gore's presentation to Congress yesterday, the eighth of his ten specific policy recommendations to reduce global warming. As the comments section to the linked article reminds us, incandescent light bulbs are not already banned because they are cheap. So, whether the ban would be morally right or wrong at its core, as policy, it would make light less affordable for all.

And when any law makes any product more expensive to all of us, the burden of that law falls disproportionately on the poor. That simple.