{"id":17657,"date":"2019-10-26T17:23:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T21:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=17657"},"modified":"2019-10-26T17:23:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T21:23:23","slug":"just-thinking-by-jamie-gray-2019-10-26t212318-000z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/just-thinking-by-jamie-gray-2019-10-26t212318-000z\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Thinking&#8230;by Jamie Gray 2019-10-26T21:23:18.000Z"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jamiegraymusic.com\/images\/gomhjfs.jpg?w=980' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>I don&#8217;t agree with fuel taxes, or carbon taxes. There are better ways to reduce usage&#8230;like make greener, carbon-neutral forms of energy cheap and readily available to the masses. Clean, green, renewable energy shouldn&#8217;t be a responsible choice that we&#8217;re willing to pay more for&#8230;it should be the cheapest most readily accessible form of energy to business and consumer alike.<br \/>\nIn general, taxing energy is really stupid, and I would argue, unconstitutional. It&#8217;s stupid because nothing more directly limits productivity, increasing the cost of everything for everyone. In general, taxation should be about distribution of EXCESS and should never be levied on the poorest citizens.  By taxing energy or carbon, you are taxing the production of goods and the resultant increase in the cost of goods and services is effectively a flat tax that affects the poorest citizens by the greatest margins, and is therefore economic discrimination and unconstitutional.<br \/>\nInstead, we should invest in research partnerships between universities and private business to rapidly and cost effectively develop and put green technology into operation. Businesses can benefit with free university research funded by government grants, in exchange for patent\/profit limits on the resultant products and technologies. Many companies now spend billions in research&#8230;and energy. It could be a real win-win for everyone&#8230;and The Planet.<\/p>\n<p>#JustThinking&#8230;<br \/>\n~jg<\/p>\n<p>***<br \/>\nJust Thinking ~ Thoughts on music, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness&#8230;and other less political stuffs.<br \/>\nby Jamie Gray<br \/>\n2019-10-26T21:23:18.000Z<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t agree with fuel taxes, or carbon taxes. There are better ways to reduce usage&#8230;like make greener, carbon-neutral forms of energy cheap and readily available to the masses. Clean, green, renewable energy shouldn&#8217;t be a responsible choice that we&#8217;re willing to pay more for&#8230;it should be the cheapest most readily accessible form of energy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[606,14,456,550],"tags":[607],"class_list":["post-17657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justthinking","category-blog","category-jamie-gray","category-random","tag-justthinking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16852,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/10\/carbon-tax-carbon-tax-carbon-tax\/","url_meta":{"origin":17657,"position":0},"title":"Carbon Tax. 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