Re:Microgrids Are Giving Power to the People
by s1artibartfast on Friday August 11, 2023 @01:03PM
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That seems completely backwards to me. If you make more you should have be effectively taxed more, just gradually. Why would we ever want to have higher taxes just so someone who makes a hundred or 500K gets food stamps they don't need. You just get a bunch of people that don't need food stamps using food stamps as a tragedy of the commons. If you make 100k you still have to pay for everyone else's food stamps, so you want to use them too.
Re:Microgrids Are Giving Power to the People
by arcticbull on Saturday August 12, 2023 @01:57PM
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How is it a tragedy if everyone is using the food stamps? That means they find value in them. So they're paying for them in taxes, then spending them. Where I come from that's called getting what you pay for.
That's no more a tragedy than everyone paying for then using the highway. We don't really means test the highway right? Why shouldn't the rich have to pay for their own roads? ;)
Re:Microgrids Are Giving Power to the People
by RheingoldRiver on Sunday August 13, 2023 @05:27AM
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> We don't really means test the highway right?
Wow, that's a fantastic analogy, thank you
Make the subsidies universal. You make 500k a year and want food stamps? Sure thing. You're being taxed so much on every dollar above 180k that it hardly makes a difference.