Science

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_population

It’s amazing how many people I talk to about overpopulation simply that we get 50% of the land (or more!) and the rest of all other animals get to fight over the rest.

Those places are also inhospitable to most life, period. Just because the TD habitable to humans doesn’t make it ours, either.

If that’s the goal, fine. But we know the real reason is profit. If people are getting less, they should pay less.

Libertarians only care about 2 things: lowest taxes possible and legal weed, and they would gladly sacrifice the latter in favor of the former. Anything else is nothing more than lip service.

Universal healthcare means taxes, and that is the one thing Libertarians hate above all. Never mind that it would be cheaper than private insurance. They relish in the fact they can skip buying insurance, and if they get hurt, ERs are required to treat them anyway.

Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh were largely responsible for turning politics into a team sport and convincing Conservatives that all Liberals are evil and that is a Liberal wants it, it must be bad.

Banana trees take up a lot of space. And heating greenhouses would be very expensive.

It’s a tropical fruit. It doesn’t grow well in temperate areas.

We picked the Gros Michel (before it got decimated by Panama Disease) and now the Cavendish because they can be mass grown, harvested before they are ripe, shipped around the world with minimal special handling, be ripened locally, and can survive all that without getting blemished.

While there are plenty of other bananas, really only those varieties could do that. Bananas cost less than a buck per pound. Other varieties would have to be shipped by air with special handling and cost many times more.

Tax burden is the amount of your income you pay as tax. Poor people spend a larger share of their income.

• Sales tax
• Property tax
• Income tax

Pretty well every state charges a combination of those to fund their state. Some have all 3, some rely on just 1. But they all combine to be part of a person’s tax burden.