In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Tue, 10 May 2011 09:51:50 -0400: Hi, [snip]
... besides, I suspect that any government trying to do this would find that their reign only lasted until the next election, at which point they would be replaced by whichever party promised to repeal the tax. :) >It would be difficult to do this, because the energy will eventually be >generated on site by small machines. To tax it you would have to meter >it, and meters can always be disabled. People occasionally reset >odometers in automobiles to enhance the resale value of a used car. This >is against the law. They do not do this often because there's not much >point to it; it does not increase resale value much. On the other hand, >when the odometer breaks people seldom bother to fix it. I'm sure that >if the government started taxing heat and electricity from home >generators, millions of consumers would cut a few wires or download a >patch for the control electronics computer to report false readings. The >government would soon find this untenable. > >(I have thought about stuff like this!) > >- Jed Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
