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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: USA4ME on January 15, 2009, 03:25:07 PM
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callchet
Lets put this to rest, it really is important.
If the price on gas goes up, the demand goes down primarily due to poor people not buying gas. So the brunt of the demand decrease is on the poor people. They can only cut back to the point of only buying gas to go to work. The point of reducing demand is to save the planet, and I believe that is an important goal. If it is that important why can't we shift the cost to the people that have money and can afford it. Why can't we give the poor gas credit cards for a discount on gas and then tax the hell out of gas. That way demand decrease will be shifted to people more able to financially cope with it and make a choice that doesn't effect their health.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4835372
I knew it was a matter of time until one of the nuts came up with this.
IOW, if a rich person and a poor person go to the grocery store to buy bread, and the rich person can afford to pay $10 a loaf, and the poor person can only afford 10 cents, then that's what they should pay. :mental:
I don't even have the time to go over all the reasons that system would crash in on itself.
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I knew it was a matter of time until one of the nuts came up with this.
IOW, if a rich person and a poor person go to the grocery store to buy bread, and the rich person can afford to pay $10 a loaf, and the poor person can only afford 10 cents, then that's what they should pay. :mental:
I don't even have the time to go over all the reasons that system would crash in on itself.
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This would be funnier than hell. I could see poor people selling the gas to the rich .... then becoming rich and bitching about it! LOL
KC
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MADem
2. People will cheat. They always cheat. We need LESS government bureaucracy, not more.
OK, what's in the drinking water over there? This should be getting around 135,000 alerts.
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This would be funnier than hell. I could see poor people selling the gas to the rich .... then becoming rich and bitching about it! LOL
KC
Great call (and a H5)! The underground economy would be bigger than the aboveground one. Like with Food Stamps now.
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Great call (and a H5)! The underground economy would be bigger than the aboveground one. Like with Food Stamps now.
No kidding! I could see poor people lined up at pumps across the nation with their 'credit' card in hand.
"Excuse me sir, would you like to buy MY gas which is $1.00 cheaper than you will pay if you use your card?" "I'll only charge you $.50/gallon to use my card .... $.65/gallon if you would actually like me to pump it for you. Hell, I'll even clean your windshield for an extra $20!"
Oh yeah, there is some real thought from the DUmbass.
KC
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....but first you have to prove you have a job to go to and then present a time card showing you're at work at least 95% of the time. ....then I'll fart in the tank of your Yugo.
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DUmmies should realize that only in the civilized western nations they claim to hate, can a person claim to be "poor" and still own a car, basic cable, internet and so on.
No kidding! I could see poor people lined up at pumps across the nation with their 'credit' card in hand.
"Excuse me sir, would you like to buy MY gas which is $1.00 cheaper than you will pay if you use your card?" "I'll only charge you $.50/gallon to use my card .... $.65/gallon if you would actually like me to pump it for you. Hell, I'll even clean your windshield for an extra $20!"
Oh yeah, there is some real thought from the DUmbass.
KC
See, there you go thinking like a evil capitalist. If they were smart enough to do this, they wouldn't be "poor" in the first place.
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This would be funnier than hell. I could see poor people selling the gas to the rich .... then becoming rich and bitching about it! LOL
KC
This has already been tried either in Minnesota or The Northwest...some kind of store or bakery where each paid according to their ability...the place was lauded by the MSM...but has already gone out of business.
Rush talked about this before Christmas.
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DUmmies should realize that only in the civilized western nations they claim to hate, can a person claim to be "poor" and still own a car, basic cable, internet and so on.
See, there you go thinking like a evil capitalist. If they were smart enough to do this, they wouldn't be "poor" in the first place.
A lot of poor people are clever -- they just made terrible decisions and terrible times. Like I said, they have no problem with selling their Food Stamps at 50 cents on the dollar. They get their drug money, the buyer gets a steep discount. And the only person hurt is the American Taxpayer -- what could be more fair?
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If they want to let the poor pay what ever they are able to pay then they should have no problem with their employers paying them what ever they can afford as well.
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This has already been tried either in Minnesota or The Northwest...some kind of store or bakery where each paid according to their ability...the place was lauded by the MSM...but has already gone out of business.
Rush talked about this before Christmas.
It was in Salt Lake City, and yes, it was an utter failure.
One Moonbat World Cafe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_World_Cafe)
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If they want to let the poor pay what ever they are able to pay then they should have no problem with their employers paying them what ever they can afford as well.
Works for me (for those that are employed)! H5, BTW.
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DiktatrW (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-15-09 02:28 PM
Response to Original message
3. Didn't they try that
in the USSR?
Im trying to decide if this reply was meant in a positive or negative way in-re the Soviet Union.
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Not only is it one of the stupidest damn things I have ever heard of it also shows clearly how incredibly vacant a DUmmies entire thought process is.
Who is going to determine just what the threshold level for such inanity is.
Guess what DUmmy..live in one of your liberal wonderland states like NY or the rest of the northeast and the cost of living with some urban population concentration would mean that more would be "poor" enough to qualify then you might think.
If there aren`t enough of the arbitrarily rich to offset the difference the fuel companies would probably think twice about sending the product.
How would it affect public transportation and taxi companies?
Called the law of unintended consequences and you idiots don`t have enough brains to even begin to comprehend such things.
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The point of reducing demand is to save the planet, and I believe that is an important goal.
Sorry moonbat, but that is what the Gorites want you to believe. If you are stupid enough to buy into that... well, it's not our problem.
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Don't you just love the way these idiots won't even put a $$$$ amount to what "rich" is?
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I got a better idea. Lets let the customer decide how much they feel like paying! Its a great business model.
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Welfare recipients have been selling their food stamps for .50 cents on the dollar for years. You can't buy beer and "other" things, with food stamps.
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I got a better idea. Lets let the customer decide how much they feel like paying! Its a great business model.
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Somebody already tried that. It didn't work :rofl:
"Pay As You Go" Shop Forced to Close After Customers Stiff Owner (http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,17439.0)
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Why don't they just admit they want to tax conservatism and get it over with?
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They ain't called DUmmies for nuttin
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callchet
Lets put this to rest, it really is important.
If the price on gas goes up, the demand goes down primarily due to poor people not buying gas. So the brunt of the demand decrease is on the poor people. They can only cut back to the point of only buying gas to go to work. The point of reducing demand is to save the planet, and I believe that is an important goal. If it is that important why can't we shift the cost to the people that have money and can afford it. Why can't we give the poor gas credit cards for a discount on gas and then tax the hell out of gas. That way demand decrease will be shifted to people more able to financially cope with it and make a choice that doesn't effect their health.
http://www.democraticunde...l&address=389x4835372
This commie prick should be shot directly in the head for suggesting such an un-American thing.
****er....
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WHy doesn't the callchet primitive just "save the planet" by killing itself? That would reduce demand, too . . .
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WHy doesn't the callchet primitive just "save the planet" by killing itself? That would reduce demand, too . . .
Demand yes, consumption only very slightly.