[pp.int.general] Basic income - how does that fit into the pirate ideology?

[Zbigniew Łukasiak]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Richard Stallman <rms at gnu.org> wrote:
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>     > Oil extraction is a business.  Any business can be taxed for this
>     > purpose.
>
>     Taxing oil companies brings energy prices up.
>
> Indeed, it does that, and that is a useful secondary benefit
> since it can encourage society to shift to renewable energy.
> The effects of global heating can destroy civilization
> and are likely to wipe out most of the species on Earth.

This gets a bit off-topic - but it is quite interesting how raising
energy and transportation prices seem to be a kind of political taboo
in many countries.  I for one would welcome petrol prices high enough
to reduce traffic, congestion is a pure waste.

Z.
>
> However, other businesses can be taxed too.
>
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