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Taxing Growth - Equitile Conversations
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Luke Drury
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“Taxing airline fuel is not the only answer to encouraging more people to choose low-carbon travel, but it’s a start.
It’s ludicrous that the most environmentally damaging form of transport doesn’t pay fuel tax”
#Climate #Energy #Taxation #FossilFuels #Transport #Airlines #Aviation
“Taxing airline fuel is not the only answer to encouraging more people to choose low-carbon travel, but it’s a start.
It’s ludicrous that the most environmentally damaging form of transport doesn’t pay fuel tax”
#Climate #Energy #Taxation #FossilFuels #Transport #Airlines #Aviation
@sjvn this is actually very simple to solve:
- Make #Support paid-only and reject submission from non - subscribers.
This something an increasing number of #FLOSS projects do: Rejecting submissions of non-allowlisted users without a valid #SupportSubscription at time of submission!
Anything else is just being a rich asshole corporation leeching!
@sjvn
Just like people pay for the SLA of their #FireBrigade via #taxation and the #FireInsurance which has to cough up the cost of Firefighter Deployments in case of a Fire.
#ClarenceThomas first asks about the ‘major questions’ doctrine
The conservative majority blocked President Joe #Biden’s $500 billion student loan forgiveness plan & other of his administration’s initiatives by ruling that #Congress must speak clearly on questions of “vast economic & political significance.”
It’s not clear whether the justices will apply the same principle in the #tariffs case, but lower courts did.
Sauer says it doesn’t apply to foreign affairs issues.
Justice #Kagan says #Congress, not the president, had the power to #tax & regulate foreign commerce.
Justice #Sotomayor is pressing the government on the fact that #tariffs are a form of #taxation, which rests in the hands of lawmakers to enact. “It’s a congressional power, not a presidential power, to tax,” she said.
Sauer argues that what is at issue in this case is not the “power to tax,” an authority given to Congress, but the ability to regulate foreign powers.