Pay the Carbon Tax
Everyone agrees that it's necessary to reduce carbon emissions around the world....Carbon taxes are more straightforward: a set tax rate is placed on the consumption of carbon in any form—fossil-fuel electricity, gasoline—with the idea that raising the price will encourage industries and individuals to consume less.
Love the way they slip gasoline in there - it's always about my SUV, and not your global airline travel, huh? Keep your filthy socialist paws off of me, you damn dirty apes!
Ditch the Mansion
A typical new single-family home in the U.S. is nearly 2,500 square feet today, up from about 1,000 square feet in 1950, even as the average household has shrunk from 3.4 to 2.6 people.
If you really want to live small, visit Jay Shafer. The former art professor dwells alone in a home fit for a hobbit, 100 sq. ft....
He made his move because he felt guilty....
So you've finally hit the big time, and can afford a big house! Sorry, although some people already have big houses, you can't have one. Not like we are going to tear down the ones that the liberal elite already have; it's just that someone has to sacrifice, and really - why should it be the Times writers and their friends, who have such swell summer white parties in their Hampton mansions?
And I'd reckon those mansions are a wee bit bigger than 2500 square feet...
Move to a High-Rise
If you're a true environmentalist, a dyed-in-the-wool greenie, then why not pack up your leafy rural home and move to New York City—preferably to a tall building right in the middle of Manhattan?
Sigh - typical view of the childless media elite, who cannot fathom why everybody doesn't want to live in the fabulous big city just like they do. Hey jerkies - people save their whole lives to move out of the city. Most Americans do not dream of living in an aging 1200 square foot, three bedroom apartment for $3K/month, with no backyard, no car, noisy neighbors, smelly streets, and underperforming schools. Actually, owning a home is often described as The American Dream. Why do you want to take it away from the middle class? Oh, right - there is no sacrifice to great for the proletariat....
There's more of this crap, much more. All delivered by folks whom detest the suburban lifestyle, and are using the guise of "global warming" to strip the middle class of their most prized possessions. Read it all, the message comes through loud and clear....
It's all yours - once you pry it from my cold, dead hands, you flippin' wankers....
Hat tip to Fausta, who mocks the Times' sophisticated urban writers for having the ignorance to recommend bamboo fencing in the 'burbs....geez, Jersey girl, thanks for getting me all riled up on a Friday night!
nice truck - may it run over many tree-hugging liberals.
ReplyDeleteThat edition of Time Magazine, after decades of having subscribed to it and reading the liberal tripe therein, finally put me over the top.
ReplyDeleteI may be too lazy to write a snail mail to cancel my subscription, but I sure as shit won't renew it. That will serve as the 52nd way to reduce "Global Warming". I'll save a tree, Time will save the energy it cost to print and deliver my copy, and the mail carrier will have one less piece of shit in his truck, which will also serve to save the Postal Service some gas.
Jim, I agree - I was at the stuck at the doctor's office last week, and I found spending 45 minutes staring into space preferable to reading an old Time or Newsweek mag...
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