Do all households use the same amount of water? If not, what limits are placed on how much water a household can use in a day?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chip Mefford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <biofuel@sustainablelists.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 12:49 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] socialism, taxes, economics, comments please. > DHAJOGLO wrote: >> On Monday, September 18, 2006 1:16 PM, Chip Mefford wrote: >>> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:16:21 -0400 >>> From: Chip Mefford >>> To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org >>> Subject: [Biofuel] socialism, taxes, economics, comments please. >>> >>> Spent a lot of hours behind the wheel these last few weeks. >>> SNIP SNIP SNIP >>> Q1. >>> What is an hours labour worth in this community? >> >> The "worth" of the water hour is the same to all. >> While others may be able to "pay" someone else to fetch the water, >> it still takes an hour and it still provides the same benefit. > > Good point. Thanks > >>> Q2. >>> Should the community consider bringing in cheap labour >>> to haul their water? >> >> No, bringing in a water hauler will not change the structure >> only increase the cost (even if it is "cheap labor"). > > Nice. I like it. > I nominate you as my representative! > >>> Q3, >>> Should the community levee a tax and use the tax to >>> pay the cheap labour to haul the water? >> >> Same as above, just makes the cost distributed through a political >> structure. >> >>> Q3.1 >>> If so, at what rate should Albert, Beverly, Charles >>> and Emily be taxed? >> >> Emily would call for a flat tax, citing that she uses the >> same amount of water as everyone else. The others would argue >> a progressive tax. Neither of which is ideal. > > Yeah, I should actually sit down and try to plug Nash into this. > > Thanks for playing! good comments! > > > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 > messages): > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
