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10 Nov 2014, 6:55 pm

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At the rate things are going I wouldn't be surprised if they charged taxes for breathing air.

It's already the case indirectly. In some European countries like Sweden (some who read my posts know already the grief I have with radical Sweden) they tax you on the amount of CO2 that comes out from your home, and say they are doing it for clean air.

how in god's green earth do they calculate or measure such coming from each individual house or apartment flat?



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14 Nov 2014, 11:36 am

It?d be clearer from the beginning that, if you want to get anywhere in life, you have to break some rules.

It?d be nice if, in addition to that, every non-citizen were taught that there are two kinds of rule breakers: those who can afford it and those who can?t.


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14 Nov 2014, 10:35 pm

auntblabby wrote:
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At the rate things are going I wouldn't be surprised if they charged taxes for breathing air.

It's already the case indirectly. In some European countries like Sweden (some who read my posts know already the grief I have with radical Sweden) they tax you on the amount of CO2 that comes out from your home, and say they are doing it for clean air.

how in god's green earth do they calculate or measure such coming from each individual house or apartment flat?

I would think they would look at people's electric counters and tax them based on that... I know I Belgium they have a pollution tax, and the way they collect it is by overtaxing trash bags, for example it's 2? for a singe 10 liter bag (around 2,5$), and 10? for a 50 liter bag. So the Belg end up squeezing everything they can in a single bag. But others just cross the border into France, Germany or Holland and just buy bags by the hundreds for the price of 1 or 2 bags in Belgium. Just shows how dumb governments can be.


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14 Nov 2014, 10:39 pm

you'd think some clever cat would have by now conceived a way [through various carrots and sticks] to 1]control the population beneath an optimal level, and enable a universal subsistence income derived at least in part from the earth's renewable resources. I believe it is just a matter of 1] lack of imagination, and 2] lack of concern.



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14 Nov 2014, 11:36 pm

They have, but they are not allowed to put these solutions in application, the reason is money, the system today allows a tiny minority (less than 1% of the world population) to get richer and richer days after day, and they allow any change that might make them lose a buck!


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14 Nov 2014, 11:42 pm

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They have, but they are not allowed to put these solutions in application, the reason is money, the system today allows a tiny minority (less than 1% of the world population) to get richer and richer days after day, and they allow any change that might make them lose a buck!

something tells me they [the true 1% of the 1%ers] have an escape hatch ready. I suspect a lot of the wannabe 1%ers think they have their own escape hatch, that of the rapture.



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14 Nov 2014, 11:59 pm

Wouldn't surprise me if they have found a secret Island that nobody knows (or at least they are hiding from the satellites) about where they can all escape, perhaps they even named it Atlantide II or Themyscira.


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15 Nov 2014, 12:04 am

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Wouldn't surprise me if they have found a secret Island that nobody knows (or at least they are hiding from the satellites) about where they can all escape, perhaps they even named it Atlantide II or Themyscira.

tierra del fuego has long been a preferred "s**t hits the fan" destination of the Richie riches, from what I've read, due to its weather patterns that resist outside influence hence resisting nuclear fallout.