Card yet to be played (but certainly will be): GHG emissions

Ok, we can cut GHG emissions by cutting demand for that transportation and those products.


We can either abandon greenies in the Amazon to survive on twigs and berries or they can hit the easy button and kill themselves.

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As a right leaning conservative, I’ve often wondered why work from home hadn’t yet become more of a mandate to reduce traffic congestion, avoid costly infrastructure expansion, etc. reducing emissions and conserving oil is an added benefit.

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Hopefully this will be a permanent bi product of this virus, allowing more people to work from home or at least hybrid a few days a week.

If “work from home” were more universal, cities like NYC and states like NY would lose a ton of tax revenue.


Income is taxes where you earn it and being able to telecommute cuts into certain states where people work but live elsewhere.

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Expect this period to be the example case for environmentalists

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Let's just be honest and call a pot and kettle a spade. LEFTISTS will be making this argument. The "Green" movement was created by the Left to suppress the industry of Western Civilization.

I work in IT at a company with a very conservative culture and work from home has never been allowed for the rank and file.

We have all been working from home during this period and in our last company wide conference call, the CEO said that he was now open to work from home on a go forward basis.

what the heck is in the northern part of Italy that looks like bloody show?

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mandate

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Those don't go together but I want the same result.

I am more productive at home because I can stop in midafternoon if sleepy and start at 5 AM if I am wide awake and don't have to worry about staying awake in midafternoon.

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It's labeled on the map - Milan. The metro is the largest in Italy and it is the heart of their economy.

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Not just that. That area of Italy shares the same problem as Mexico City, Los Angeles, and Beijing.

Big cities with lots of cars and/or industry, nestled up to mountains that trap GHG's because prevailing winds push across them to the mountains and hold the gases there. (Mexico City is more of a bowl, but same problem.)

I had been in Beijing maybe a dozen times before I was there right after a big storm that rinsed the air. First time I realized that the mountains where the Great Wall runs are visible from the city.

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As a right leaning conservative, I’ve often wondered why work from home hadn’t yet become more of a mandate to reduce traffic congestion, avoid costly infrastructure expansion, etc. reducing emissions and conserving oil is an added benefit.

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ok. i'm also very conservative and hate the current progressive liberal myth about global warming.

but the idea of working from home which checks many "carbon footprint" issues by the left sounds great.
i think if people do this then they should be allowed to claim it on their taxes.
we should be compensated.

lord knows the government always finds a way to add another tax for living and breathing air in a free country.

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but the idea of working from home which checks many "carbon footprint" issues by the left sounds great.
i think if people do this then they should be allowed to claim it on their taxes.
we should be compensated.

lord knows the government always finds a way to add another tax for living and breathing air in a free country

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I think it's a natural progression for many...uh...relatively useless occupations of managerial nature or of systems maintenance

And I'm for less taxes everywhere, but incentives for specific behaviors have strange unforeseen consequences...

Suddenly McDonalds is home, etc.