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

[Betiel]

2013/7/18 Zbigniew Łukasiak <zzbbyy at gmail.com>

> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Richard Stallman <rms at gnu.org> wrote:
> >         [ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider
> >         [ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,
> >         [ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example.
> >
> >     > 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.
>


But transportation taxes also rises the prices of food (unless you can
assure everybody can get the food without transportation- we know that is
impossible in big cities), thus elevating the quantity of money you need to
for the basic income

Betiel

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