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Pollution sites

mercredi 22 novembre 2017 à 01:00

The US has concentrated pollution sources in areas where poor or black people live. The troll and SCROTUS are eliminating the regulations to keep this in check.

Sometimes poor people are economically compelled to move near pollution sources because housing elsewhere is too expensive for them. Sometimes the pollution sources are built in areas that poorer people are moving into.

If the pollution affected everyone in the US equally, that would avoid one unjust aspect, but the pollution would still make people sick. Therefore I think we should give priority to reducing pollution and the harm it does, and spreading it more equally should be a secondary goal.

We need not argue about how to site coal-burning generators, when it makes no sense to build any new ones and we need to shut them all down as soon as possible. On the other hand, stored coal ash could be moved into safer facilities that are near fewer people, until we have the technology to render it harmless.

Fraud scheme murders

mercredi 22 novembre 2017 à 01:00

Putin has tried to pin the blame for three murders (of people associated with a massive fraud scheme) on the people who have tried to expose the fraud.

Sales and driving jobs

mercredi 22 novembre 2017 à 01:00

Online sales, a dangerous surveillance system, are wiping out sales jobs. About 8% of these jobs have been lost in Britain recently.

The Tories' response to this developing disaster is to push to eliminate jobs for drivers as well.

Once they have made millions unemployed, they will castigate those millions as "lazy".

Taxing foreign profits

mercredi 22 novembre 2017 à 01:00

The supposed reason for offering "US" multinationals a tax break for bringing foreign profits officially to the US is that they would then invest it in the US.

The idea is totally bogus, because they already have plenty of money in the US, but they are not investing it because they see no opportunities.

We need to tax away a substantial amount of that money and invest it in society's needs — infrastructure, measures to reduce global heating (including birth control and abortion), and food and education for all children.

UK housing prices

mercredi 22 novembre 2017 à 01:00

One policy that keeps housing in the UK down is that the state can't buy unbuilt land based on the value of its current use. It has to pay market rates which are inflated by the idea of selling the land for development.