• evenglow@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    There will come a time very soon — mark my words on this — when Democrats, armed with the precedent of the EV tax, will turn around and try to impose their own punitive taxes on previously purchased household items they’d like to stamp out, like that gas range in your kitchen. I’m sure that in some quarters of the left, the lightbulb has already clicked on.

    Unless that, too, is suddenly taxable.

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      13 hours ago

      To be fair, gas stoves put out a lot of benzene and are known to increase cancer rates in those who live in homes with natural gas stoves. If anything they should be taxed to pay into cancer healthcare costs.

    • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      Democrats don’t give a rat’s ass about gas stoves or your light bulbs. That was completely manufactured Fox News Extended Universe slop. Not one elected Democrat said anything about stoves.

      And you should be gently encouraged to use LED light bulbs. It’s the same fucking thing but lasts longer. Incandescent light bulbs were the actual scam:

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel