As much as these people are annoying and ignorant assholes, they're also victims of fraudsters who pretend to know the secrets of living an easier life through secret magical knowledge of "the law". They sell this bullshit in seminars where people are paying $500 to $1000 a seat.
AnotherDirtyAnglo
joined 2 years ago
I've always said that... Canadians are HUGE CO2 emitters, simply because of our geography and climate. We need to put in place a carbon tax that is low, but applies to damn near everything. People who consume more pay more. Invest the tax revenue in things that minimize CO2 emissions - public transit, home efficiency retrofits, subsidized higher standards for building codes, etc. Every year the carbon tax goes up, and every year the benefits get expanded.
I'm not a fucking genius, why can't anyone else do this?
You boost ownership by making it infeasible to be a landlord... You tax the fuck out of residential property ownership that is not your primary residence. If you own a home you don't live in, 1% tax on the total value of the home, every year... And that tax rate increases at 2x the rate of inflation, every year. Within a decade or two, the housing market gets fixed as each individual owner determines that their 'income property' isn't profitable anymore.
Sounds about right. My partner participated in first aid training for rescues - including overturned cars, etc. The organizers advised local police, fire, and ambulance three times a week before, the day before, and the day of. We still had cops show up because someone called the provincial police. Doh. Add another set of calls to the list.
Ugh. This is one of the nutters that my mother was parroting during the pandemic, because he was a signatory to the 'Great Barrington Declaration' -- to which "Dr. I.P. Freely" was also a signatory.
Hey! Here's an idea! Let's stop subsidizing billionaire sports team owners! We could save... approximately $7 million!
And those people who don't support it because they pay more in carbon tax are the ones who need their behaviour to change... So, it works.
Generally speaking, buying outright is always cheaper than renting, because you can always continue to run the device potentially for years, or sell it to reclaim some capital.
And kids don't want to eat their vegetables or go to bed on time... Sometimes people need to be encouraged to do the thing they don't want to do, but is only in their best interest.
The stupidest part of this whole thing is now easy it would be to set up in a way that people could accept...
Levy a small carbon tax, nation wide, on all energy, for all users. The carbon tax goes into a fund, which is re-distributed to encourage the right behaviour:
- Improve / expand public transit
- Fund energy-efficiency retrofits
- Subsidize green power initiatives
- Rebates on zero-emission transport like electric bikes, and compact electric cars
- Retrain existing oil & gas industry workers to install/maintain electric infrastructure
- Cash for Clunkers to get polluting vehicles off the road
- Build new, ultra-energy efficient homes based on an improved building code
- Tax rebates to everyone in the lowest tax brackets.
Please, steal this idea.
Did anyone else get a full half-dozen alerts? I got the first one, then it repeated when I didn't respond to it, then it buzzed my watch, then I got two more separate alerts on the phone after dismissing each of them.
While I'm a big fan of waiting until I have more or better information before making a decision or speaking out, we've known that Gaza has been a bloodbath for weeks -- we have had verifiable video of the carnage since the beginning.
Going to need a source on the AirTag ban... I used them six times in the last 18 months, no problems, and I had the peace-of-mind that my bag had made it onto the plane.