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> Use less and pay the same is an hypocritical and outrageous way to raise prices That's what taxes are there for: encourage purchases that serve the general i

• kkfx 5y ago
  Hum, my own personal definition of taxes under a Democratic government is a tool to redistribute richness, nothing more, nothing less. Manipulating prices via taxes to force social change is a VERY bad idea IMVHO. To force social change it's better incentive the new, leaving the old as always, having a first wave of citizens that try and speak enthusiastically about the new, encourage public debate teaching why something should or must change etc. For instance lying knowing that you are lying affirming that energy prices are skyrocketing because of the bad Russian bear is the ideal recipe to create social unrest, NOT to push a real green new deal. Clearly stating that some resources are more and more scarce, using the media power for that instead of to spread lies, is far more effective: peoples who eventually do not know and refuse to at first will get convinced, peoples with different interests can't just spot the lie weaponizing it against the change. I'm firmly convinced that talking bend society, trying to master citizens like cows in a herd, like Gustave Le Bon and Eduard Bernays have done in the past do work for a short period of time and the outcome are a series of straw fires followed by deep crisis, global wars, sufferance. While real Democracies have proved to be fragile but also an incredibly effective way to evolve and cooperate. Neoliberal style propaganda is useful and works not to master the society for the society sake but to pasture peoples as cows for élite sake...