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good point, the tax on a truck should be proportional to the wear and tear of that truck on the road
Trump adminstration is trying to increase tolling on trucking companies because they don't pay proportional to wear and tear.
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And the correct activity to tax is the delivery itself , or some close proxy for it. Ideally taxed to the business doing the delivery so they have a harder time faking lower prices or otherwise making it seem like the higher costs are for any reason other than the way they're doing business. While we're at it we could make trucking companies pay for the actual amount of wear they put on the roads and the costs to bui…
> And the correct activity to tax is the delivery itself [...] Ideally taxed to the business doing the delivery Congratulations! You have discovered gas taxes ;-)
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I consume less with online shopping. With groceries, I plan out my week's meals with the Paprika app, shoot the list of ingredients over to notes, and then order only what is on that list, which is delivered to my door. No more "hmm, this looks interesting" as I'm wasting my time walking up and down aisles specifically designed to make me spend more. My fridge and cupboard now look almost empty, despite having the we…
> cheap Chinese crap It may rhyme but it remains offensive. Can you please change that? Maybe not for that post, as it is too late, but for your future posts?
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> And the correct activity to tax is the delivery itself [...] Ideally taxed to the business doing the delivery Congratulations! You have discovered gas taxes ;-)
Those aren't going to be super useful as the shift to electric continues.
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I consume less with online shopping. With groceries, I plan out my week's meals with the Paprika app, shoot the list of ingredients over to notes, and then order only what is on that list, which is delivered to my door. No more "hmm, this looks interesting" as I'm wasting my time walking up and down aisles specifically designed to make me spend more. My fridge and cupboard now look almost empty, despite having the we…
> cheap Chinese crap It may rhyme but it remains offensive. Can you please change that? Maybe not for that post, as it is too late, but for your future posts?
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I consume less with online shopping. With groceries, I plan out my week's meals with the Paprika app, shoot the list of ingredients over to notes, and then order only what is on that list, which is delivered to my door. No more "hmm, this looks interesting" as I'm wasting my time walking up and down aisles specifically designed to make me spend more. My fridge and cupboard now look almost empty, despite having the we…
> cheap Chinese crap It may rhyme but it remains offensive. Can you please change that? Maybe not for that post, as it is too late, but for your future posts?
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I wish I could tell amazon to just ship everything together on a particular day instead of piecemeal. Just because I ordered on Monday doesn’t mean I need it Tuesday. And you’d think they’d learn that there is no front-desk on Sundays before 10AM, but no. Ugh.
> I wish I could tell amazon to just ship everything together on a particular day instead of piecemeal. You can: https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=17928921011 https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/28/amazon-prime-members-can-c...
I think it is fair that the increased usage of public infrastructure warrants a substantial increase in taxes
I'm pretty sure online shopping dramatically reduces use of public infrastructure, i.e. roads and parking. Every UPS truck that goes out with 100 packages means, what -- conservatively, maybe 50 separate car trips that it replaced? And so that much less traffic, congestion, pollution, gas used, etc.
Similar to how building more or wider roads do not reduce congestions - more traffic takes its place.
The media really seem to love pushing downright naive logistical assumptions trying to make online shopping a villain while expecting us to believe our own cars and brick and mortar store's logistics run on pixie farts. You never see them talking about the impact of junk mail. To be frank at this point it feels like they are trying to extort ad money to stop negative press coverage.
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I consume less with online shopping. With groceries, I plan out my week's meals with the Paprika app, shoot the list of ingredients over to notes, and then order only what is on that list, which is delivered to my door. No more "hmm, this looks interesting" as I'm wasting my time walking up and down aisles specifically designed to make me spend more. My fridge and cupboard now look almost empty, despite having the we…
> No more "hmm, this looks interesting" as I'm wasting my time walking up and down aisles specifically designed to make me spend more. When it comes to fresh produce, though, this is exactly how I shop. We've gotten accustomed to buying things in any season and then wonder why strawberries look beautiful but taste like a cucumber. It's not until I'm at the store that I remember what fruits and vegetables are in seaso…