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>If you are stating that current poverty should be made worse NOBODY is suggesting that. If you want to fix poverty in the United States, there are several ve
by crdoconnor 12y ago
>If you are stating that current poverty should be made worse
NOBODY is suggesting that.
If you want to fix poverty in the United States, there are several very straightforward ways of doing this - bolstering SNAP, extending medicare, raising the minimum wage, building social housing and creating a job guarantee (as was done during the last depression).
These are, incidentally, all things that anti-solar groups like ALEC are also usually against.
Added to which, solar panels are actually the only form of power generation which is within the reach of poor people, which is why millions of people in the third world are taking advantage of it. Give 0% credit for it (as is available to all big banks in the US to play their gambling games) and literally everybody would be rich enough to take advantage of it.
- brc 12y agoBut if you are increasing energy prices for things like solar subsidies, then you are making poverty worse. There is no avoiding that. I'm not going to comment on all your other suggestions - that's not the point I want to make. That point is - making poor people pay more for electricity so that rich people can get a rebate is just wrong. There is no justification for it. To fix things, first you have to stop making them worse.