#Subsidies

[acti-veg]

People love to call veganism ‘privileged,’ while conveniently ignoring the fact that the only reason animal products are even close to being accessible for the average consumer is because they’re factory farmed, slaughtered and packed by grossly underpaid labourers working in dangerous conditions, and then massively subsidised by all of our taxes.

#vegan #subsidies #privilege #anti-vegan arguments #original

[merelygifted]

#Michigan #subsidies #employment

[superpte]

Plutocrats Hate Trains, They Want Subsidized Private Jets! Hate Them Back! Cut Pluto Subsidies! Night Trains!

Hey, there is only so much money to go around! All the money should go to plutocrats! If plutocrats took the train, even private extra luxury “wagon lit”, they, the elite, the world government, would have to come in proximity to multitude of common people! Plutocrats can’t stand common people, because they are not philanthropists, and have to be taken care of all the time, just like pigeons. No…

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#Air Travel #Briançon #COP28 #Ecology #Electric trains #Montgenèvre #Night Trains #Plutocrats #subsidies #trains

[msfbgraves]

Art subsidies have a function

A lot of people wonder, rightly, why tax money is used to sponsor what is often truly atrocious art. Self important, masturbatory drivel that nobody wants. Could that money not be better spent?

If you truly care about good art, no.

Good art needs the freedom to be uncommercial. Not all good art is, though. Nobody would have greenlit the pitch for Hamilton, be real. But good arts needs the freedom to be critical, niche, to not be an advertisement, to be and yet be shown for its own sake.

And yes that will lead to an amount of drivel that would be worrying if it weren't so funny. But if you want brilliance. Innovative, heartfelt brilliance. You have to take Big Money out of it.

Take Derry Girls. Who would have cared in Hollywood? Nobody. And yes, public money will likely only get you two seasons but as soon as Netflix got their claws in S3, you can see them trying to sex it up. Which is practically impossible, because this is Derry Girls, but suddenly there is a Liam Neeson cameo, because he may be the only Northern Irish actor who is Well Known. They're putting James in a fistfight and the girls cheer that on where they would have tried to stop it in S2 (Michelle would have jumped bodily in front of James while telling him to stop being such a dick, James!) There is a Chelsea Clinton cameo. It's tonally weird and it is 'broader appeal' and 'international markets' talking. But it only exists because it was made in part with public money.

We need to keep showcasing utter shite to act as a fertiliser for brilliance. And if you want something good, you need to learn to give 10 minutes of your time to some subsidised stuff and you find that again, it's utter shite, to stand up and leave.

But only among the uncommercial compost does the brilliance grow.

Big Money ruins everything.

#subsidies #personal #derry girls

[youngyoungcoyote]

Bro they really just calling these bots anything nowadays

#spam bots #tumblr bots #railway #infrastructure #subsidies #what #so true

[bopinion]

My demands on policy makers - seriously now:

Abolition of all climate-damaging subsidies such as on kerosene!

More speed with the mobility turnaround!

Prohibition of the privatization of basic necessities of life like water!

Lowering of the voting age to 16 years with solid political basic information!

Access to good education for all, throughout life!

Regulation against fake news, hate speech - and the misuse of AI!

A supply chain law for all imported products and services!

No more patronage politics!

Generational justice!

Women in power!

#thoughts #aperçu #politics #not funny #not fun at all #demands #policymakers #climate change #subsidies #mobility #turnaround #privatization #voting age #education #fake news #hate speech #ai #artificial intelligence #supply chain #patronage #generations #justice #women in power

[thefreethoughtprojectcom]

Leave it to the government to take something that was supposed to help the environment and end up doing the exact opposite 🙃

#solar #the free thought project #government #subsidies

[joe-england]

Let's talk about divorce, nationally....

No, it’s really not a good idea.

#youtube #national divorce #marjorie taylor greene #federal government #money #economics #red states #blue states #subsidies #assistance #conservatives #republicans #far right #culture war #beau of the fifth column #america #united states #politics

[feministdragon]

When the Market Economy (where everything is for sale, including labor, land, and money) was just first getting started (late 1700s-early 1800s), it was fucking horrible for the laborers, people were starving left and right.

so some guys got together and made what got called "Speehamland", the UBI of its time.

the unintuitive result of this was that workers who got wages that didn't exceed the Speehamland subsidies didn't care about their work and so did shittier work. Faced with near-universal shitty work, factory owners paid workers less and less, and workers could make it up with the Speehamland subsidies. Why didn't they just pay them more? because those factories that paid workers more couldn't compete on the market with those who paid less.

So as wages raced to zero a weird situation arose:

The government of the time was essentially taking the workers' payment from the factories and owners through taxes, and then distributing them to the workers. The government was becoming the de-facto distributor of wages, but workers were receiving no more than subsistence wages, still on the verge of starving, and nobody had money to buy the products of the factories.

At the time the workers were also forbidden to unionize, so for me it's an open question as to whether the introduction of unions agitating for a standard of living that worked for everyone would have changed this situation.

another thing to consider is that the government could have just maybe become the de-facto worker union and actually pay the workers a living wage-level UBI, rather than subsistence-wages, and that might have worked better for everyone, as workers could have lived well, and afforded to buy the products and etc.

it's interesting to consider.

#my first response was like #oh this is why UBI wouldn't work #but then I was like wait #there were other factors at play here #like the people in power not being able to conceive of more than keeping people alive #and not realizing that purchasing power of the poor was A Thing #UBI #subsidies #like right now the gov is most often subsidizing the rich #maybe we should play around a bit with actually subsidizing the poor #see where that gets us #that's really what eat the rich should be about #feeding the rich to the poor is actually good for the economy #but tbh idk if 'good for the economy' is good for the planet anymore #even more factors to consider #feministdragon

[gettothestabbing]

The policies most proposed on Capitol Hill are ESAs (“education savings accounts”) and “money follows the child” plans. Both sound benign. Many families already have an education savings account in the form of a 529, in which they have put their own money to be used at a later date on education expenses. As to the latter, it makes sense to have already spent tax dollars follow a child to whatever school they attend, be it public, private, or at home.

But ESAs are not true savings accounts. With an ESA, the government collects the taxes designated for public education, then redistributes those dollars to families who choose not to attend public schools.

Because the money flows through the government, the government then gets to decide how it is spent—for example, what types of school, curriculum, and tutoring programs. The same is true for “money follows the child” bills. The government would still collect taxes meant for public schools, but it would just broaden what those taxes can be spent on. The government, and not families, would still have the final say in what is considered an “approved educational expense.”

When bureaucrats are empowered to decide what is acceptable, education freedom is threatened. Many families—including those who are Muslim, Christian, Jewish, and Sikh—choose to homeschool because they want to include religious material in their learning. Others have children with learning disabilities who require special tutoring services.

The flexibility of homeschooling has given rise to a plethora of education methods that allow parents to address these specific concerns. These methods range from interest-driven learning like Montessori (focused on hands-on, collaborative play) and Finland’s forest kindergarten, where children spend up to 95 percent of their time learning outdoors, to more traditional textbook learning. Which one person, bureaucrat or otherwise, is equipped to say that this wide variety of learning methods all fit into the “approved educational expense” box?

Government policies to fund education open the door to other regulations: lists of curricula that families have to use, mandatory homeschool registration, and even mandatory home inspections. There have been attempts to implement all of these at the state level. The pressure would be intensified if the federal government started regulating home education as well.

The corrosive nature of these public funding schemes can be seen in California. Currently, California, believe it or not, is one of the best states to homeschool in. Homeschool families register as private schools, and private schools are not subject to the same testing and curriculum requirements as the public options.

But any school in California registered as a charter school, not a private school, receives funds to be used for approved expenses. The lure of supposed free money is powerful, and many families have used this provision to register their “homeschool” as a charter school in order to receive government funds. The result is that California has seen an increase in public-school-at-home families and a decrease of true home-based education families free from the state’s regulations.

Abuse of California’s charter school provision has also led to attempts at increased regulation in the state. In recent legislative sessions, state legislators have introduced bills to provide more oversight over these “homeschool” charter schools. Private school families fear this regulation push could target them next.

#Maggie McNeely #homeschooling #school choice #subsidies #bureaucracy #deep state #education savings accounts #parental rights #education #Montessori #forest kindergartens #CA #charter schools #private schools #emphasis added to original

[acti-veg]

As much as I support making polluters pay for the harm they cause, nothing even resembling a ‘carbon tax’ will make sense while animal agriculture corporations are still subsidised through our taxes despite being one of the most destructive industries on the planet.

#vegan #subsidies #taxes #environment #original

[ryandjaxon]

You can enjoy sports without worshipping the anti-competition monopolies that it breeds

#oligarchy #non compete clause #taxpayers #subsidies #emotional manipulation

[bighermie]

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[pressnewsagencyllc]

Australia’s ‘Year of the Big Battery’ could be followed by a ‘Decade of the Smaller Battery’

But we shouldn’t forget that the renewables market overall in the country is largely driven by what happens in behind-the-meter (BTM) settings – on the rooftops of houses where the adoption of solar PV is higher than almost anywhere else in the world. Energy-Storage.news’ coverage of the latest Sunwiz annual report on energy storage in Australia kicked off with the quote that 2023 was the “Year…

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#aemo #behind-the-meter #curtailment #dnsp #Energy Security #Market Analysis #rooftop solar #Solar PV #storagesummitaus #Subsidies #transmission and distribution #virtual power plant

[zonneboilermagazijn]

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#Zonneboiler Subsidies #zonneboilermagazijn #zonneboiler #subsidies #bestelnu