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by sprucevoid
1568 days ago
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> I do wonder if this has an effect of encouraging the segments of society that don't plan so well From the POV of climate destruction the segments that don't plan so well, or to put it more bluntly, who plan and act so badly that they're strongly disproportionately responsible for the problem are those that the progressive consumption tax (and general wealth taxation) adresses: the wealthiest. US style welfare provisions have three flaws at the same time. It is
(1) not generous enough to escape the costly everyday scarcity tax*
(2) spiked with time-wasting conditions and bureaucratic procedures and
(3) politically and socially stigmatized. The US should transition to the northern european welfare state model which works better in all those three regards. * https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/sendhil/files/scientificam... |
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