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  • Why not both?

    You’d absolutely need to do both, unless you wanted all sorts of malformed incentives.

    Generally speaking, the revenue from a pigouvian tax needs to be spent mitigating the problem that generates the revenue. Otherwise, you end up with something of a Cobra Problem, wherein excess consumption is seen as a revenue driver that the state subtly promotes.

    Isn’t this article about UK?

    I’m just speaking from personal experience.

    If you want to talk shit about the UK, you can always point to HS2. Cancelled out of spite by the outgoing Conservative government. Chronic mismanagement of the rail network has been a lead weight around the British economy for decades.












  • I don’t trust his word because Republican politicians have zero credibility.

    They’re highly credible on their professed loyalty and support for Israel.

    it doesn’t mean the claim that China used it to push propaganda is false

    TikTok is not a Chinese company, it is not run by Chinese apparatchiks, and it isn’t integrated into the Chinese state media system. It is a Singapore based company invested into by a conglomeration of international investors.

    my default belief is to assume that they were using it for this purpose

    Why would you assume the Chinese government is calling the shots and not any of the governments of other TikTok investors?

    It isn’t as though TikTok lacked Israeli-favorable propaganda. The Israeli media simply didn’t trend as well as Palestinian Rights media. How does this lead you to conclude China is to blame? Wouldn’t a Palestine-symathetic state be a more likely culprit? Qatar, for instance?





  • they’re >50k and made in China lol

    The Model 3 is $38k and made in Freemont, CA.

    This rule exists to exclude BYD, XPeng, and the constellation of other Chinese EV companies, whose enormous productive capacity are swamping the East Asian auto industry with cheap EV compacts and small trucks.

    Incidentally, BYD had historically operated an electric bus factory in Newmarket, Ontario. But operations ceased thanks to cut backs in the Toronto Transit Commission. They may try to repurpose the plant to begin manufacturing consumer-ready vehicles, but its still up in the air with respect to US/Canada trade relations and Canada’s own shaking economic situation.