Denmark to ban petrol and diesel car sales by 2030

Re:Denmark to ban petrol and diesel car sales by 2030 by dwaltrip on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @02:28PM (#18133217)

> If a small number of rich people are willing to pay $100 in extra taxes to smoke a cigarette, is that really so bad?

What is the rational to "letting" the rich smoke (replace with activity "X" if desired), but not everyone else?

For the most part, that is what the policy effectively ends up doing, and so enacting it becomes to an implicit approval of that result.

It's obviously not the only way of looking at the situation, but I think it has some merit. Interesting to think about, at least.

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Re:Denmark to ban petrol and diesel car sales by 2030 by im3w1l on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @10:18PM (#18136592)

Smoking a cigarette harms society. Rich people can afford to compensate society for the harm they inflict, so that society comes out ahead.

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Re:Denmark to ban petrol and diesel car sales by 2030 by JoeAltmaier on Thursday October 04, 2018 @12:36PM (#18141419)

But do they? Or does their platinum-level insurance pay for the new lungs, which really comes out of the working-persons' pocket?

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