> why don't you add an extra tax on gold used for jewelry too? and luxury cars, yachts, and anything that isn't really useful?
These are all really good ideas... Great comment!
These are all really good ideas... Great comment!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxury_tax#:~:text=United%20St....
10% from 1991 to 2002 it seems.
There’s two sides to eating meat:
1: In many cases it’s actually not less efficient than eating a plant. If I eat some lamb or sheep in my area, they’re eating wild stuff growing in the hills and mountains. I’d like to see you try to eat what they’re eating, or grow anything we can eat there without destroying nature. In many cases cattle is raised on land not suited for growing food for human consumption, especially high quality protein. In many regions, you’d have no chance of getting local sustainable high quality proteins without meat or fish.
1.5: There’s also the aspect that raising animals is the only way to do sustainable, regenerative agriculture. How do sustainably fertilise your soil without them?
2: In the cases where meat is produced in an unsustainable way, it IS indeed a luxury that should be taxed. We shouldn’t cut down rainforest to grow soy for cattle feed or to make pastures for cattle for export.