(03-10-2022, 09:56 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(03-10-2022, 08:42 AM)Sneakers Wrote: A reduction in income tax will not motivate those living off the government to suddenly get jobs.  

Higher gas prices increase the cost of doing business throughout the rest of the economy and push inflation.  The best way to reduce gasoline consumption is through the development of viable alternatives.

Do you think the EITC incentivizes work as it was intended to do? I do.  That is a reduction income tax that incentivizes people to work more.

And I agree we need to develop better and better alternatives.  That's why we still subsidize the purchase of electric vehicles.  That's why we subsidized rooftop solar, although that's going away.

As stated in a previous post somewhere, solar is not viable as a replacement for the majority of electric load usage until battery technology achieves massive advances. Heat your water, it'll do a 3rd of the job. Light your home, maybe. Run your HVAC, no. Run your computers? Maybe. Fridge/freezer? LOL. Charge your EV in 2035? Not the way batteries work today. We need either fusion, nuclear or Fuel Cell based on hydrogen. And none of those except nuclear are safe enough yet.

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