Fact 1 ) Living partially off grid is good slightly better for the environment.
Fact 2) But by doing so you are invariably part of other peoples tax burden....the moment you walk into a civilized store, hospital or even go online someone else is paying the bill for your easy access to these goods and services.
People living partially off grid do about as much damage to the environment as someone on welfare and the parasitic load on the tax system is almost the same if they are accessing roads, shops, the internet, schools, hospitals, have a car, gas, electricity or water supply....yes really !
Scodiddly wrote:OK, for instance... why should I pay for schools, when I have no children? I don't benefit from schools!
But it turns out that if you educate the kids, all the kids, fewer of them turn into criminals. So your tax dollars that pay for schools are really also paying to reduce crime in your locale. Also smarter kids means better local culture, better economy.
Sigurd wrote:Scodiddly wrote:OK, for instance... why should I pay for schools, when I have no children? I don't benefit from schools!
But it turns out that if you educate the kids, all the kids, fewer of them turn into criminals. So your tax dollars that pay for schools are really also paying to reduce crime in your locale. Also smarter kids means better local culture, better economy.
What a horribly inefficient way to reduce crime.
If you think that is a good idea, then you pay for it. And ASK me to chip in, don't FORCE me.
Sigurd wrote:Seriously, why are you guys posting here? If you disagree with Jaimie's lifestyle, why are you on his forum? This is the kind of negative crap Jaimie talked about being so sick of in his videos. Let us live how we want.... you can have the other 95% of the planet.
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