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The community to discuss buying European goods and services.
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Useful Websites
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General BuyEuropean product database: https://buy-european.net/ (relevant post with background info)
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Switching your tech to European TLDR: https://better-tech.eu/tldr/ (relevant post)
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Buy European meta website with useful links: https://gohug.eu/ (relevant post)
Benefits of Buying Local:
local investment, job creation, innovation, increased competition, more redundancy.
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Friendica:
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๐ฉ๐ช Germany: https://piratenpartei.social/ & https://anonsys.net/
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๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands: bark.lgbt
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๐ซ๐ฎ Finland: pikaviestin.fi & chat.blahaj.zone
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Allow them, donโt ban.
BUT make owning one so expensive and annoying nobody wants to get one.
Extra taxes, extra costs, donโt let big gas guzzlers in city centres etc.
Americans are paying 100k for these fucking things now. Taking out 10 year long loans to pay for it. And then crying about gas prices on twitter. Not sure cost will stop people. People are idiots.
Nah, just ban them.
Extra Tax and Fees just makes it a poor people tax, and rich assholes will carry on as if nothing changes. A straight-up ban makes them not appear at all.
This is the better option. But, if you're gonna do that, there needs to be some kind of program that allows people to sell their banned vehicle to the government for above market value so they can afford to purchase a comparable, but more suitable vehicle instead. Otherwise, you're gonna have a bunch of pissed off people with six-figure, three-ton lawn ornaments crying about how they couldn't have known their vehicle would get banned and it's now useless.
Already a system done all across the world in everywhere but America, it's called a Trade-in program.
Another solution is implementing a ban that will get into effect in 10 years, when the value of such cars would be lower anyway.
This prevents people from buying new big cars in the meantime anyway.
Agreed, wasn't it a 'work truck' heavy vehicle tax break after the fuel crisis in the 70s that created these monstrosities?
(Please correct me if I'm wrong, I'm late for work.)
AFAIK yes, thatโs the loophole. If a vehicle is heavy enough then the law assumes it must be for โworkโ and thus some pollution laws donโt apply.
Car manufacturers noticed this and thus the massive โSportsโ โUtilityโ Vehicle was born.
The solution then is to remove that loophole, by keeping the pollution laws applied there. And those who actually used such vehicles for work? Yeah, sucks, but they should complain at those car manufacturers.
Or alternatively, we classify them as trucks instead of as cars.
Close. I believe you're referring to the EPA efficiency mandates passed in the 90s that carved out exceptions for "heavy duty" trucks and SUVs, which lead to the creation of "crossover" vehicles, which started as a way to deliver car-like efficiency and features, while still minimizing development and efficiency costs by still having it classified as a "truck."
No, you're entirely correct (though it was one of many factors, that being the largest)
Close. I believe you're referring to the EPA efficiency mandates passed in the 90s that carved out exceptions for "heavy duty" trucks and SUVs, which lead to the creation of "crossover" vehicles, which started as a way to deliver car-like efficiency and features, while still minimizing development and efficiency costs by still having it classified as a "truck."
So, pass a ban that only applies to poor people and let the rich continue to do whatever they want still since they can afford the fine?
There are ways to make fines hurt everyone, see how Finnish people handle speeding tickets
Itโs a percentage of your income ๐
You can have an income- and wealth-dependent fine.
It could be as a % of your total income (bonus included) + wealth (including stocks, full ownership chain included).
1.5% of income, 5% of wealth in bank account, 10% of stock value. If any of these three exceeds 300x the median of the lowest 10%'s salary (let's say that that's 10k), then it's 80% for all three. That would hit the ultra-wealthy more and so it'd be fairer.
For a poor person earning less than โฌ10,000 a year and having โฌ1,000 in bank and no stocks, that'd be โฌ200.
For someone earning โฌ40,000 a year, having โฌ80,000 in bank and โฌ10,000 in stocks, that'd be โฌ5,600.
For a billionnaire who has 1 billion, let's say โฌ2,000,000 per year as "income", โฌ100,000,000 in "bank account", and the rest of 1 billion in stocks. Then they'd be paying โฌ 801.6 million.