If we are all going to donate, then what's the problem with centralising that and collecting it through taxes?
OT: Electric cars actually burn fossil fuels
Jun 19, 2022
Last reply: 3 years ago
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Because we don't all want to donate. The word donate implies choice.
Currently she's third up if we could manage to get rid of the other two idiots. There's no hope.
The difference is that the govt doing it isnt voluntary donation wise.
Exactly, so some would not donate and there would not be enough to help those that need it.
Which shows we don't want to help them.
Geez!
Nothing at all. On the other hand, if you envisage a monopoly which can enforce compulsory donation using guns and prisons, that's something totally different from charity, it's called either 'robbery' or 'extortion' depending on the means used.
And that is the circumstance under which the Britain people became prosperous and numerous enough to contemplate inventing the welfare state.
Do you think prosperity has increased since that happened, discounting technological advances, which are mostly nothing to do with governments?
How can prosperity increase when people are lumbered with keeping people going who don't contribute. It may be an ethically good idea, but it's no good to forward the country.
Which is what our governments are. And you keep on voting for them. Stoppit.
They always had a welfare state even before the industrial revolution.
It was done by the church instead of by govt.
Yes, real living standards are vastly better than they were even just after WW2 had ended.
Good point. Electric cars are very dangerous. No one has ever died in a gas-powered car fire. No one. Can't happen.
That's why I still drive my Ford Pinto. I feel safe in it, well protected against a battery fire.
I feel about the same in my Corvair.
Happen all the time. Being able to exit the car is the issue. My wife and I were able to exit my old Pontiac when it caught fire.
The problem is companies unwilling to train their workers.
Climate change affects nobody you silly believer.
Mine is costing me 2 pence per mile in electricity. How much are you paying in petrol?
Tim
Have you calculated your break even cost between the extra cost of the battery and the cost of petrol?
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