krashmo

Would you be into a little bit of raping at a 9? Or is that just "I love kids in a non-creepy way"

It is cute but I have generally found that people who post stuff like this on social media on a regular basis have the worst relationships. It seems like they think that if others believe they have a great relationship that it will magically become true.

If you click through some of the options on this page: https://jellyfin.org/contribute/

It links to a donation option here: https://opencollective.com/jellyfin

I get that you like Jellyfin but you don't have to lie about Plex to make the point that this is a shitty move for them to make. Despite this decision Plex's service works just fine. That may change one day but it hasn't yet.

Yes, in my opinion, a simple but unfair (in a largely meaningless sense of the word) tax is better than a perfectly fair tax, especially when ensuring fairness comes with cumbersome compliance requirements that both eats into tax revenue and doesn't provide a significant change in the amount owed. $150 vs $75 over the year is not meaningful so even a 50% reduction doesn't change much of anything.

Well the article is about the federal government so your state laws are not the subject of the discussion at hand.

You said it was simple to collect odometer readings from all EVs. I disagree. I think that's the most labor intensive solution we could come up with.

We meter every gallon of gas sold because that's an easy thing to do at the point of sale. The gas station already tracks how much fuel you're buying so they know how much to charge you which means there is no extra work required for anyone. You could say the same for DC fast charging an EV but using any other power source would require additional work by someone that does not currently have to happen. That adds complexity and cost to the proposed solution that is not necessary.

That's a great idea that I fully support. Unfortunately, you and I both know it will never happen.

No, there are no annual safety inspections. Some states do emissions tests but mine does not and EVs would obviously be excluded from those anyway.

You could do that but it's considerably more complicated than a flat tax. I would much rather pay a flat fee to not have to deal with inspections and/or tracking mileage.

Yes that system would work but I'm not sure how you arrived at the conclusion that "inspect every EV in the country" is simpler than "flat tax on EVs". Running inspections at that scale seems multiple orders of magnitude more complex than a one time fee.

You're talking about 5G vs cable or DSL. This article is about the upper bounds of wireless technology. Those aren't the same topics at all. One is about physics and computer science, the other is about the business plans of telecom companies.

Other types of taxes are exactly what this article is about. A flat tax for EV owners is their proposed solution to the problem. Sure, other options exist, but people are commenting like this is an insane idea and it's pretty vanilla.