The city I used to work for tried banning mowing certain times of year, and had to back down due to all the lawsuits coming in.

My current city is trying to ban leaf blowers (they’re terrible in like 8 different ways), but that’s also very difficult.

It is if timed properly.

A true, effective boycot a week before the end of their quarter will fuck up their quarterly earnings reports and hit the stock prices in a way that can’t be balanced out for another 3 months.

It also assumes the people on top want to give a higher proportion of their earnings to their workers or hire more staff. If I own a business and it’s most efficient with 12 employees, you can cut my taxes to zero and I still won’t hire more people, and as long as there are people willing to work for pennies I won’t be paying dimes.

The best way for the government to incentivize better pay and for my wealth to benefit society is to force me to pay my workers a loving wage and to increase my taxes.

Yeah, a lot of the 1% is overleveraged and still lives paycheck-to-paycheck and increasing their taxes may hurt. Buy really, it’s the. 001% that we need to be going after.

We need a wealth cap after which the tax rate is 100%. And to keep them from moving to a new country we can require that it applies to anyone whose business interesta intersect with US companies, with the enforcement mechanism being an embargo from any company operating in the US. We don’t even need the taxes to go to the US, but after X amount of wealth it needs to be paid in taxes to someone.

Though the benefit of the law is that the standard engine on the Ford Maverick is the hybrid, since having the ICE as the standard wouldn’t meet CAFE.

If the Maverick had been possible to obtain when my Colorado died last summer it’s definitely what I would have bought.

Instead I got an NV200 mini cargo van, and I’m pretty happy with it. Though the smash cargo vans just all got discontinued by all the manufacturers too because of CAFE.

But they’re essentially illegal. CAFE standards are based on vehicle footprint since the late 2000s (you know - when they suddenly quit making small trucks). As the standards get stricter they just make trucks bigger to keep from failing to meet CAFE.