New California laws 2024: Income-based electric bills

Adjusting prices based on income is completely subverting the purpose of different incomes to begin with.

Adjusting prices based on the income of the person rather than how much electricity they use is FRAUD.
There is no other name for it.

It'll just encourage more people to become bloodsucking leeches on society. They have a good start with the 10 million leeches they've let invade us

spat said:

Adjusting prices based on income is completely subverting the purpose of different incomes to begin with.

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EXACTLY!




Comrad.

Know what would be even more equitable?

Taxing high earners on the sunshine their property receives, to cover the cost of free green energy the state provides to poor people.

My income is $0.

Fuck these people. They are fucking insane!

We wonder why there is no middle class.

How long until this applies to bread and milk?

jimc said:

How long until this applies to bread and milk?

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Already does. When was the last time you used a welfare card to buy groceries, oh, wait you work, you pay for those welfare cards.

Yup, fruits and nuts.

Dr. Evil said:

Yup, fruits and nuts.

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And gettin fruitier and nuttier all the time! Guess who is that quote from?

There are these things called equal protection under the law (14th amendment) and price discrimination. I have always thought that forced income based discrimination (the seller forces you to pay more than someone else) for any reason was unfair and unAmerican. If we both get the same blood test or rent the identical apartments or buy the same tire or use 100KW of electricity from a business, we should pay the same price, period (especially from monopolies or oligopolies). Volume discounts make sense in regard to covering overhead if again, they apply to all equally. Individuals should be able to sell their possessions for what ever they want (your house, your possessions, etc.).

stokes said:

It'll just encourage more people to become bloodsucking leeches on society. They have a good start with the 10 million leeches they've let invade us

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Naw... No leeches here in the great state of NY, the Empire State. Illegals here in NY will be going to work for Tyson Foods. And I've read they will be getting some good bennies. Makes me NY Proud... NY Strong, as the ad goes.

I won't be buying anything with the Tyson Food label on it. I wonder if Tyson will suffer the same consequences as Bud Lite... hope so.

So if they do this will they get rifle of help for utility bills then? Will they get rid of programs like heap or will they get both? This is absurdly ridiculous IMO.

i should move to Cali as a low wage earner

and then buy 5 hot tubs

and get Cheap Electric

and cause a black out

spat said:

Adjusting prices based on income is completely subverting the purpose of different incomes to begin with.

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What's the purpose of different incomes?

Rap said:

What's the purpose of different incomes?

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The whole purpose or money is to allocate resources.

The purpose of different incomes is to allocate more resources to people who have earned them than to people who haven't.

If incomes were identical (or if all prices were just come adjusted, which amounts to the same thing with extra steps), then there would be no incentive whatsoever to work, let alone work hard.


Make every job pay the same, and I'll quit my job and run a lemonade stand at the end of my driveway one hour a week.

Why wouldn't everyone else do the same ? If it pays the same as busting your ass 60 hours a week, why bother.

Rap said:

What's the purpose of different incomes?

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They want to make it so you’re more dependent on the government for everything. They want it so if you make say $50k and $100k it will all wash out in the end and you’ll have the same disposable income because the government services and aid you get. It’s working well in some areas but people aren’t happy. I can tell you people who make way less than me take more vacations than I do and have nicer/newer cars than I do as well.