The author writes this article as though it is an indictment of Trump’s tariffs. But the real indictment is car culture. When your people say they can’t get food without a car, that’s a problem. Society is broken.
https://t.co/0pRgyTqR98 via @NYTimes
“Like, the party of limited government is gonna go out and, ‘say we’re gonna have [a car tax]?’”
Maybe the party of limited government should stop being communist for cars. Maybe the party of fiscal responsibility could get drivers to cover their costs. https://t.co/86u9LaXzXi
I sat in car free Lincoln square around some homemade benches last night and just gazed and the incredible ornamentation on these buildings. Could the loss of ornamentation and the rise of car culture be related?
@arbitrageAli@JGrantGlover Cyclists still much yield to vehicles with the right of way. So cyclists only don’t stop if no one else has priority. This doesn’t give cyclists permission to take priority. So a cyclists who comes to an intersection with waiting cars must stop and let those with ROW proceed.
@Boenau@Jalopnik It’s wild to me that this isn’t obvious to our leaders already! Plus, car payments are monies leaving the community. That $1k/mo wouldn’t just be back in their pockets, it could easily be spent locally! It could also just become fewer hours worked! And that’s the best. #DeGrowth
@cornoisseur Glad my rep Hoan voted yes! Glad it passed! Idiotic that the free market loving GOP hate the freedom to make fiscally responsible housing.
@UrbanCourtyard@zachklein@AldMattMartin@40thforward Crazy how powerful car driving NIMBYs have become, isn’t it? We should install these on Wilson by Waters school because we know no politician will calm traffic there!
Also, in order to pay our debt to ourselves we must burn down the planet.
Like, imagine that I owe my spouse $1m and to get it I have to sell our home and everything in it.
And imagine my partner and I both think this is an unfortunate but inescapable reality.
Reading about the trump tariffs, this line kind of makes me chuckle. Earth is a closed system, so who could it owe its debt too? Meanwhile, another headline today said all the billionaires combined have more money than all but two countries.
This system, folks, isn’t working.
Like, just think about the absurdity of this statement. Humanity collectively owes $318 Trillion dollars to itself, and therefore humanity has no money to pay for humans to take care of other humans (welfare).
So we’ll just have to let humans suffer unemployment and misery.