That’s that the position for American libertarianism’s.

I don’t particularly hate taxes because I like my government services well funded.

You say crazy but I believe you meant predictable.

Bold of you to assume they’ll use Java and not some obscure language picked based on the need to pad their resumes.

they don’t accept themselves.

This is a requirement for being a republican if you’re bank account doesn’t have seven zeros.

It present in many forms but lack of acceptance of themselves, their situation and the reality around themselves is a prerequisite for being a republican.

I like weed but hate taxes.

Look at this red neck hick over here drinking cheap beer who things he’s a god because people tolerate him enough to use him for his tiny island of knowledge around cnc machines.

The only line of work he can maintain because the machine doesn’t judge him for his horrendous stench and ogre like appearance.

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Hell, they want to enslave a chunk of their own side. Shouldn’t be long until it’s illegal to be too poor.

I doubt prices will drop as fast as bankruptcies will increase because the distribution chain has that price inflation and it will react slowly. The tighter the margin the more quickly the business will fail.

Employment will also drop quickly because firing people is a fast and easy way to reduce overhead so service quality will dive off a cliff.

But, hey, less traffic! Yay!

Agreed on the weird side affects.

My state charges an ev surcharge and since I do very little driving it costs more than the tax on what little gas I would use.

Electricity produced by solar panels is not taxed.

Most electricity is not used by EVs so there is no correlation to road maintenance. It’s an inappropriate way to fund roads. It would make more sense to tax tires.

An electricity tax could be used to convince people to self generate their electricity but utility monopolies would lobby hard against it but it will never solve road funding.

Sunk cost fallacy.

Unless you literally destroy the old ice vehicle to replace it with a new ev, the new ev is a net improvement for the environment.

But since it enters the used car market, this is not the case. The replaced ice vehicle is likely pushing an older more polluting ice vehicle out of the system.

Google would still own android and may not be inclined to keep chrome as the default. That is a significant portion of the browser’s user base.

With default search engine agreements being threatened, it may shake out where Google and Firefox agreed to make Firefox the default android browser in exchange for keeping Google their default search engine.

We suffer today because we allowed the right to strip away workers rights. Entire generations have been convinced they are better off without collective bargaining.

Everything else is pure fucking noise.

Globalization is the excuse they use for why unions are bad but there are tons of jobs that cannot be unions with terrible wages so clearly globalization is not the problem but it is a very convient excuse because we get to blame Those People.

You’re still relying on making this personal. You aren’t at pure of thought as think yourself as you mouth these well established platitudes.

The idea I am discussing here is a pure libertarian stance on commerce and I understand why you are unable to label it correctly as the American Libertarian are just anti-tax morons who are too embarrassed to call themselves republicans.

The government should not be protecting industries via tariffs. Trump supporters love tariffs and agree with your stances therefore you are a Trump lover.

See how easy that was to paint you as something you likely are not? It’s far easier to label people so you can dismiss them than to attempt understanding a perspective that conflicts with your own.

The raise your child to use a device appropriately. Waiting until they are a teenager is far too late to form the appropriate habits around self limiting screen time.

I get that no one wants to blame the device but this is clearly a parenting issue and I say this as someone who has on average raised far more children than anyone in my generation.

But go ahead and lean into the articles that blame on the evil algorithms and the evil corporations. Personal and parental responsibility is hard anx blaming outside influences is easy.

Raise your children or someone else will do it for you.

Yes, that’s exactly why I’m for allowing countries that can do it cheaper to import their goods. It’s cheaper for everyone.

No one is owed a job, using the government to project jobs and profits cost us all. It is corporation socialism sold with the slogan, “think of the workers” – the fact that the right pushes for this agenda is a huge fucking red flag. They pick and choose the workers they pretend to care about and every single time it’s because there is a huge opportunity to extract profit from labor.

I think the peoblem here is I understand the world more than you. I didn’t use such a silly appeal to make my position because I use logical and you used feelings and insults.

So I wasn’t sure if you were an asshole, but based on this comment, I’m am not certain you are.

I say this because it’s fun for me and I’ve been taught to speak at my audience’s level.

It’s pretty clear the issue here is you. Specifically, your reaction. The solution to than can only come from you. The world will not bend to you and the world is not responsible for making you feel certain things, that’s all you.

We don’t want Chinese dumping their cars and leading to the loss of even more manufacturing jobs in North America and Europe.

Who is this we, here? I want this. The people employed in these manufacturing jobs are not people I am concerned about.

When China gets bored with subsidizing our economy, we can spin up new state of the art facilities.

We are being sold a lump go fear, uncertainty and doubt around this stuff by the people who profit off these industries.

13? How many of their friends have phones because I would assume their using phones, just not one you gave them and I know from experience other parents do not do the most basic of filtering in their kids devices.