Cog wrote:I guess the solution is to make rich people poor so they won't consume as much. Or just kill them, whatever works. LOL
KaiserJeep wrote: park on the periphery of the airport, with tie-downs, and they allow one engine to idle continuously for the number of weeks that they decide to stay, so that one engine can start all the others. Never mind that the idling turbofan engine burns tremendous amounts of fuel, idling at low elevation in it's least efficient operating range. Never mind that some people (like me for example) live less than a mile from said airport and can hear the damned planes 24x7 during Summer months. Never mind that the engine experiences so much wear that it must be rebuilt at 4X the rate of one not so abused. It's all worth it when a rich selfish pr*ck of an owner can phone ahead and have his jet topped off and ready for him at a bare 60 minutes notice. Never mind that the airport itself charges a $10K+ fee to jump the queue of carefully sequenced Summer flight plans. Never mind the outrageous amount of fuel consumed, or the pollution (hydrocarbon and audible) produced by the idling jets. Because rich pr*cks can do anything they want.
KaiserJeep wrote:My problem with consumption taxes is that they, too need to be progressive. The Larry Ellison's and the Donald Trump's of the world, with their oversized jetliner private planes that consume the same amount of fuel as a jetliner that carries 100+ or 300+ people, should pay the same amount of jet fuel tax as the airline. Unless we can get creative and charge them a progressive tax that increases as passengers per plane goes DOWN.
Cog wrote:@outcast_searcher
And as for unfairness, well, does a rich guy REALLY need multiple yachts to water ski behind?
I'm so glad we have self-appointed mothers to tell everyone what they need. Why not just fully embrace the social justice you really want by killing them? You know you want to. If the environmental impact is so severe, then killing the rich would benefit the planet. So get your gun and go to work.
Newfie wrote:Big pictur is we have 7.5 billion folks and we can support maybe a billion. How we get to one billion is s mystery he seems likely to be a horrid mess no matter how you cut it.
This is just a circular blame game.
Cog wrote:Outcast_Searcher's theory on income redistribution:
Collectors are not the problem, rich pr*cks who think that the rules are for everybody else are the real problem.
So kill them and save the planet. I swear you sound more Marxist every day with your confiscation of wealth theories.
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