We LIBERALS do understand economics and physics.
Every one of your hypotheses are based on flawed assumptions. The current adaptation to circumstances has built in benefits to BIG PHARMA, BIG AGRICULTURE, BIG OIL, BIG INSURANCE and BIG FINANCE by way of tax incentives and subsidies that HIDE the TRUE COST of things. The 9 billion dollars in subsidies to the oil companies LAST YEAR ALONE...could better have been spent developing renewable energy, and people would have reduced their travel because of the high HONEST cost of gasoline. There could easily be REBATES to people for temporary needs to use existing technology to get back and forth to work, but many people would find ways to BANK THE REBATES and REDUCE THEIR USE (carpools, work at home, four day work weeks are just a few adaptations that become WIN/WIN)
adornoe, I am sure you are used to thinking yourself superior intellectually to bleeding hearts, but I WAS ONE OF YOU until I started doing RESEARCH that shows FOLLOWING THE MONEY has to be TRANSPARENT, and using taxes to support corporations at the expense of individuals leads to TRICKLE UP, not TRICKLE DOWN. I can go on forever about how corporations WRITE THE REGULATIONS they later ***** about...and they are written to make it harder for smaller companies to compete with their teams of lawyers and accountants.
