[me_me_me]

Maybe they should consider taxing the office space since businesses do not need to pay for it when most of their staff works from home.

Taxation of WFH people is like taxing vegetarians because the tax revenue from sugar tax is too low.

Edit: Also fuck banks, of course their employees suggest taxing the middle class.

[gruez]

>Taxation of WFH people is like taxing vegetarians because the tax revenue from sugar tax is too low.

How is sugar consumption related to meat eating?

[me_me_me]

fine, if red meat was taxed for substitute it for sugar tax.

Or better example if cyclists were taxes because they don't pay motor/petrol tax.

[gruez]

I get your point, and don't disagree with it, but the analogy you used is still off. In the case of fuel taxes, they're mostly used to fund road maintenance. Since the amount of road damage (and therefore maintenance cost) increases exponentially/geometrically with axle weight[1], it doesn't make sense to tax cyclists because the amount of cost they incur is negligible. On the other hand, it does make sense to charge electric vehicles extra $$$, because they incur road wear but don't pay for it via fuel taxes.

[1] https://streets.mn/2016/07/07/chart-of-the-day-vehicle-weigh...

[_v7gu]

Taxing fuel as an indicator of road use is outdated now with the advent of electric cars. There should also be additional taxes for gasoline due to the environmental costs, and the simplest way to make things fair is to stop taxing analogues and taxing directly instead.