You get the outcome you expect. Government is not exempted from that.

The government is always the insurer of last resort. That means companies will try to exploit that. This is how those private roads operate. There is no getting around it. We must have roads. You can't simply accept that there are no roads. It just is not an option.

You mean so many humans don't have to.

Keep reading.

A financially lucrative part of the Press Gazette's business

The Press Gazette is an industry rag. Not sure why you mention the 1970s, do you consider that to have been a long time ago?

Really, I have got it nailed. Read the damn wiki page. It is run by a trade magazine company.

People very well were being killed by employers when we lacked any sort of regulation for working conditions. The Jungle was not about where you meat comes from.

Government can do a great job, this insistance that it can only do mediocre work is why it does mediocre work. People who elect those who say things like this are insane, would you hire a worker who stated your company could only do mediocre work? If you want to see an excellent job being done by government go to places where they expect that from government. They do pay more in taxes though.

Public road alternatives all suck. They end up being like the toll roads in Texas. Built with taxpayer money, sold to some politically connected jerk, and never repaired. Once the road is unusable the company that owns that single road folds and goes into bankruptcy leaving the government to again fix the road.

I would not go that far, but thanks for agreeing.

Slashdot has too many small minded folks who can't see how we all benefit from these things. A big one that people forget is why you can hire someone who can read and write for $9/hr. That is because we made that education free to the person being educated and our businesses all benefit by being able to hire those educated workers for very little.

I fit in none of those.

Increase taxation would hurt me, but that is ok. I am totally fine with that outcome so long as our civilization can do what it must. I just voted for a property tax increase that will impact me directly. My towns schools need the money and as they spend about 80% of it on instruction I can't see how they are wasting it. Things I like cost money, and I don't mind paying for them.

It matters not if it impacts his life or not, Mr.Buffet is correct in that he should pay a higher percentage than he does. Instead since most of his income is investment he gets an unfair advantage.

Not at all, but I sure as hell would double check. These folks are famous for exaggeration and outright falsehoods for a reason. They are about half a step up from the rags with stories about batboy.

I agree.

A far simpler tax system is going to be killed by those who work in that field and those who take advantage of the current one.

My simple answer would be to exclude the first X of income from tax, let X equal the median income. Then tax the rest at some set rate. No deductions of any kind shape or form and all money in is income. The source matters not at all, a gift is income in the same way that found money would be or investments or a paycheck.

and ?

Look at who won in the past, not that impressive.
This is decided by a fucking trade magazine. Not exactly impartial.

I would not trust the Daily Mail to tell me what color the sky was.

You are more likely to find facts in Pravda than the Daily Mail.

Get some temperature probes and have nagios monitor them. They are pretty cheap and would have alerted you before damage was done.

1 and 3 are not the same thing at all.
2. is only partially billed directly. Much of public sanitation is clean streets and enforcement of dumping/sewage laws.
4 you cannot live without. You would likely already be dead or maimed without or have family in that situation.

In short, grow up kiddo.

Ah, that makes some sense.
Do companies also pay this tax? Or is this just a tax that the middle class end up paying?

Data center temperatures are not for humans. They are selected for a lot of reasons and that is not generally one of them. A big one is what the vendor is willing to support. Another major concern is how long you can last with a major cooling failure. I don't mean a single chiller fails, I mean someone screws up and hoses a bunch of them at once.