auntblabby wrote:
SpirosD wrote:
AspieOtaku wrote:
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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