Tax working from home 'to support vulnerable jobs' – Deutsche Bank
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Re: Tax working from home 'to support vulnerable jobs' – Deutsche Bank
#2Instead of penalizing change, why not encourage it? When you work from home, you don't put anywhere near the carbon into the atmosphere that you would commuting. You also spend a lot less on lunch, and you don't need to put your children into state-run schools that are really there to function as daycare centers as much as they are to educate.
If all of that office space in downtown areas stays dark, and the zoning laws are altered or removed, it can be redeveloped into housing that's actually affordable.
We really are running into a wall on the methane crisis, and we we simply don't have the time to integrate these changes at a slower pace.
Let's focus on changing our regulations that prohibit building neighborhoods for pedestrians. Let's work on getting homes with solar roofs and big batteries. Let's get drone delivery everywhere. Let's electrify the transport system with electric cars, electric trucks, eVTOL aircraft. Let's tunnel underneath and between cities and connect them with hyperloops. Let's connect people in rural areas with low-cost, low-latency satellite internet access.
Doing these things will directly provide a great number of jobs for a great number of people. It will make a great number of new jobs possible. It will improve the natural environment. I think this is a much more positive direction to take than to try to slow things down.
Re: Tax working from home 'to support vulnerable jobs' – Deutsche Bank
#3Working in an office should be taxed to mitigate the environmental cost of such a high carbon lifestyle. Why would we tax people for avoiding paying the carbon taxes associated with the office lifestyle?
Re: Tax working from home 'to support vulnerable jobs' – Deutsche Bank
#4How on Earth would that help? Maybe printing money, taxing the unearthly wealth of the largest corporations that currently pay $0 or negative taxes (e.g. Amazon, Netflix, many others), and giving a federal job guarantee or some mix thereof would be better?
Adding a tax on specific behaviors will just cause these $0 paying corporations to shuffle various activities around to come out paying $0 or less.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/03/why-amazon-paid-no-federal-i...
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/04/amazon-had-to-pay-federal-in... ($162 million tax bill after 2 years of $0)
Re: Tax working from home 'to support vulnerable jobs' – Deutsche Bank
#5Tax the rich not the workers. While I realize the article says it will be paid by employers, that will be turned on us.
Re: Tax working from home 'to support vulnerable jobs' – Deutsche Bank
#6Instead of penalizing change, why not encourage it? When you work from home, you don't put anywhere near the carbon into the atmosphere that you would commuting. You also spend a lot less on lunch, and you don't need to put your children into state-run schools that are really there to function as daycare centers as much as they are to educate. If all of that office space in downtown areas stays dark, and the zoning l…
I think this is an immune response by capital. If people don’t need multiple spaces for living, that has a big impact on the people who own property and land. Shifting to things like drone delivery, etc, which I think is a great idea, would be an imposition to edified capital interests. I am pessimistic that our system has the will or momentum to shift toward what individual laborers and human groups need, but it is heartening to see that the fight itself is becoming so overt.
Re: Tax working from home 'to support vulnerable jobs' – Deutsche Bank
#7Instead of penalizing change, why not encourage it? When you work from home, you don't put anywhere near the carbon into the atmosphere that you would commuting. You also spend a lot less on lunch, and you don't need to put your children into state-run schools that are really there to function as daycare centers as much as they are to educate. If all of that office space in downtown areas stays dark, and the zoning l…
They can't help but penalize change. Work from home is a change that is resulting in much lower tax revenue, and they need new income streams to make up for it.
"It argues this is only fair, as those who work from home are saving money and not paying into the system like those who go out to work."
They simply need more people to "pay into the system" again.
Re: Tax working from home 'to support vulnerable jobs' – Deutsche Bank
#8OR...end the lockdowns and lifestyle restrictions so there are no "vulnerable jobs" to this virus that has a 0.13% IFR [1]. Human choices by governments are both creating the problem and providing solutions to the problem.
“The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, 'See if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk.” ― Harry Browne
Remote workers you get to pay for the crutch.
[1] Oct 05 WHO announces 750m cases and on that day there were ~1m fatailities. 1m / 750m = 0.0013 = 0.13% IFR ( end of article here https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/nyc-ebola-doctor... )
Re: Tax working from home 'to support vulnerable jobs' – Deutsche Bank
#9Instead of penalizing change, why not encourage it? When you work from home, you don't put anywhere near the carbon into the atmosphere that you would commuting. You also spend a lot less on lunch, and you don't need to put your children into state-run schools that are really there to function as daycare centers as much as they are to educate. If all of that office space in downtown areas stays dark, and the zoning l…
They can't help but penalize change. Work from home is a change that is resulting in much lower tax revenue, and they need new income streams to make up for it. "It argues this is only fair, as those who work from home are saving money and not paying into the system like those who go out to work." They simply need more people to "pay into the system" again.
Should we also penalize people who cycle to work, and pack their lunch at home? On paper they are no different than people working from home.
Re: Tax working from home 'to support vulnerable jobs' – Deutsche Bank
#10OR...end the lockdowns and lifestyle restrictions so there are no "vulnerable jobs" to this virus that has a 0.13% IFR [1]. Human choices by governments are both creating the problem and providing solutions to the problem. “The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, 'See if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk.” ― Harry Browne Remot…
You missed one major point. That IFR is with the restrictions in place. If they were lifted it would be higher.