That and that they closed their industrial heartland made me take COVID seriously at least a month earlier than anyone else. Not much I could do but wait, but at least I didnt find myself rushing for toilet paper (I…
Agreed, I'd be pretty pissed if letters I wrote to a lover were published even if I were dead for hundreds of years. It's my private correspondence. Not all y'all's. It's the same reason why I'm annoyed that they…
While true, this is a very dishonest view of the environmental impact of flying. At best, assuming a full flight and a long route, say >500 mi, (taking off is a large, fixed, cost) an aircraft gets about 100 passenger…
So it punishes me that whose closest family is 500 km away. The next closest is 1000 km away and then half way across the world. A $100/flight tax for a family of 5 would bug me, but wouldn't stop me from flying.…
I didn't say I want Italy to be an economic island. Isolationism has been against Italian economic interests since, at least, the renaissance. Probably since Magna Graecia. Italy doesn't need a Lisbon Treaty bound EU to…
As an Italian citizen, I hope for Poland to leave so my country's net transfers less money to the eastern countries and will, hopefully, encourage Italy to grow a pair and leave
I lived in Europe. Add to that a general lack of cash liquidity of the middle class. I.e. when you're poor you're not sure you might not need those extra euro 60 next week for an unforeseen emergency. When we lived in…
" I wouldn't expect an acute shortage to result from these reasons. (I mean clearly my expectations are wrong given what is happening but this doesn't match my prior understanding of how things are supposed to work.)"…
The poor, in democracy, will vote for their interests. So, unless you abandon democracy, you won't get the poor to vote carbon taxes. How about we start by putting a $1000/flight tax? Seems only fair that the rich,…
Let me guess, You work from home and/or you make much more than an average person your age. Maybe you're a programmer. Ok let's make energy more expensive. I think it's only fair that the pain is distributed equitably,…
That and that they closed their industrial heartland made me take COVID seriously at least a month earlier than anyone else. Not much I could do but wait, but at least I didnt find myself rushing for toilet paper (I…
Agreed, I'd be pretty pissed if letters I wrote to a lover were published even if I were dead for hundreds of years. It's my private correspondence. Not all y'all's. It's the same reason why I'm annoyed that they…
While true, this is a very dishonest view of the environmental impact of flying. At best, assuming a full flight and a long route, say >500 mi, (taking off is a large, fixed, cost) an aircraft gets about 100 passenger…
So it punishes me that whose closest family is 500 km away. The next closest is 1000 km away and then half way across the world. A $100/flight tax for a family of 5 would bug me, but wouldn't stop me from flying.…
I didn't say I want Italy to be an economic island. Isolationism has been against Italian economic interests since, at least, the renaissance. Probably since Magna Graecia. Italy doesn't need a Lisbon Treaty bound EU to…
As an Italian citizen, I hope for Poland to leave so my country's net transfers less money to the eastern countries and will, hopefully, encourage Italy to grow a pair and leave
I lived in Europe. Add to that a general lack of cash liquidity of the middle class. I.e. when you're poor you're not sure you might not need those extra euro 60 next week for an unforeseen emergency. When we lived in…
" I wouldn't expect an acute shortage to result from these reasons. (I mean clearly my expectations are wrong given what is happening but this doesn't match my prior understanding of how things are supposed to work.)"…
The poor, in democracy, will vote for their interests. So, unless you abandon democracy, you won't get the poor to vote carbon taxes. How about we start by putting a $1000/flight tax? Seems only fair that the rich,…
Let me guess, You work from home and/or you make much more than an average person your age. Maybe you're a programmer. Ok let's make energy more expensive. I think it's only fair that the pain is distributed equitably,…