Re: We NEED a blackout!

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From: Tim May
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In article <3A56750E.EDB39FAC@genek_hates_spammers.com>, GeneK 
<gene@genek_hates_spammers.com> wrote:

> I don't know, but it seems to me that it should be feasible to establish
> a system that allows people with business licenses to declare their homes
> their places of work and to add whatever their "baseline" tier rate at
> an outside office would be to their homes.  Of course, if your home
> business involves the use of arc welding, you'd likely be going into a
> higher tier anyway, compared to someone whose business related 
> consumption
> consists of a couple dozen pieces of computer equipt

This is a _terrible_ line of reasoning. For privacy reasons as well as 
basic economics.

All this talk of establishing "baseline" usage is bad economics. Let 
commodities be priced by the market. 

--Tim May

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From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
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