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Pensioners receive a check from the tax funds just like everyone else. Assuming pensioners use less electricity than average, they will receive a net benefit.
by Consultant32452 9y ago
Pensioners receive a check from the tax funds just like everyone else. Assuming pensioners use less electricity than average, they will receive a net benefit.
Corporations using a lot of electricity get the same sized tax dividend check the pensioner gets, so it's a net loss for them. The wealthy subsidize the poor under this system.
It functions alot like ubi actually.
- walshemj 9y agoPensioners tend to use more power than younger residents which is why inflation in power costs hurts them proportionally more.
- Consultant32452 9y agoThey don't use more than factories, big box retailers, large corporate offices, data centers, families with children, etc. As long as they're less than the average, they get a net benefit.
- walshemj 9y agoPensioners in general are on a fixed income which is where your idea breaks down.
- Consultant32452 9y agoTheir income is irrelevant. If they consume fewer kWh of electricity than the average power company customer, they will get a net benefit. They might pay a $25 tax, but get a $40 benefit. Meanwhile the large factory might pay $5,000 but they still get the same $40 rebate the pensioner gets. Given that large corporations who consume huge amounts of electricity are in the pool, it's almost impossible that the pensioner could consume more than the average.
- walshemj 9y ago"If" they wont! as they dont go out to work and also fell the cold more. You seem to be missing the point here
- Consultant32452 9y agoBusinesses will use orders of magnitude more than the pensioners. The fact that a pensioner might use more per capita than a young person doesn't matter. When the young person leaves the home for work, they're just going to a different building that is also consuming electricity, generating more pollution tax. Plus, there are more people per household in a young home because of children.