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That is a lot more than a 4 minute drive then.

Going to the shop here by car is by google maps, "typically 7-12 mins" for a 2 mile trip and that is a pretty accurate estimate. I can cycle it reliably in 10 and don't even have to sober up.

You drive for a 4 minute journey?

This is why I let the cat finish the job

Luigi wants to know their location

Use the taxes to subsidise green alternatives. Carbon taxes on fuel get spent on building bike lanes for example.

Carbon tax. Double rates for private jets.

Don't really need a compass for a road trip given you are just following roads. I went on a bike ride somewhat recently following a similar idea, using a tablet instead of a book but I just had an offline map and it doesn't support GPS. I followed various paths and roads going around. Was a nice day trip.

Russia us on a wartime economy and struggling with 1 European country that is using a portion of peacetime stocks from the rest of Europe.

If Europe wants to take this seriously, Russia doesn't have a chance.

I expect countries to spend a reasonable amount of resources to raise an adequate army according to their abilities.

So a percentage of their GDP?

Sounds like a problem for the renters.

UK has property taxes too and its pretty shit tbh. Council tax, there are bands based on what your house was worth in the 90s (yes really...) and generally the poor will pay a higher % of their income. I have a pretty small bungalow, 60m². One of the lowest bands and pay £1600 a year on a house that cost £230k. The most you can have to pay is £4200, beyond that point regardless of how much more expensive your house is the tax rate doesn't increase.

The original plan of the tax was a fixed rate per person. This among other things is why many people were keen on the idea of digging a hole so deep that we could hand Thatcher over to Satan personally.

Investment company comes in and buys literally everything because they can just offer 20% over value. Now they rent it out for twice as much as your mortgage cost. What are you going to do, not like there are any other houses left.