Standard lie told by the far right.

The issues are simple.
The left wants to spend our money on everything (gluttony)
The right wants to not spend the money on anything (greed).

The difference is simple the people greedy should never be trusted in charge of the money they will always steal it for themselves and their friends.

The gluttonous can be trusted as while they will spend the money like water, they will spend it on EVERYONE rather than stealing it for themselves.

Finally, the gluttonous have a natural limit, people object to raising taxes. But it is much harder to object to cutting taxes.

This is why I watch TV while lying down on the couch rather than sitting up.

It used to be that the GOP were capitalists, bad capitalists but capitalists notherless. But that has ceased.

The biggest sign was the "no self repair contracts". That is the most anti-capitalist thing I ever heard of. If you buy it, you can do what you want with it, including not just repairing it, but ripping it in half and sticking extra seats in the middle. Yeah, I want to see a stretch John Deere. tractor.

The Republican Party has abandoned Capitalism for Plutocracy long ago.

They yell SOCIALISM every time someone objects to their plutocracy.

They have no idea what real capitalism is. Free Markets, not government control, and government providing necessary services for every case when capitalism cannot solve the problem.

Examples of capitalism not solving problems include:
Judicial services
Prison
Police
Military
Fire
Education
Roads
Utility
Safety regulations
and yes, HEALTHCARE

Your math did not account for:
1) Power prices going up. If that continues, then it becomes a no brainer.
2) Solar + batteries is a lot better than just battery + time of use. Now that utilities are paying you a lot less than what they charge for electricity, batteries + solar pretty much haves the time to break even for either separately.
3) You can often buy used batteries for a better price than their age/use indicates. That is for a battery that has been used for just 1 year you can pay less than 80% than new price.

Let assume for a second we lived in a world truly like the one you describe.

Coca cola having cocaine in it. Beer having opiodes, Chocolate having just a bit of nicotine, etc. etc.

Then solution is to fix it, not just give up. Do not just take the money but change their behavior. Stop them from doing what they are doing.

But the truth is you have fallen for the oldest con used by lawyers. "What we are doing is no worse than anyone else." when it is in fact worse than other people. They exaggerate the issues other have. They try to get the guy that went just a bit over the line of what is illegal to be legalized, then they move the line and try again.

McDonalds, TV, and Music are NOT at all addictive. Just because they are desirable does not move to addiction. Certain video games do their best, and while they try hard, they too are not addictive.

Addiction is a real thing, not merely something that people like. Gambling and possibly sex might very well be the only non-ingestable addictive behavior. Almost nothing that is not addictive will convince people to do things they are ashamed of.

No one eve ends up prostituting themselves for McDonalds. But drug addicts will prostitute themselves for drugs.

Rockets routinely achieve speeds higher than Mach 1 and you never hear the boom. Mainly because the boom is in the direction they ae flying - up.

Vehicles cause noise. Noise is a sound wave in the media(air). Normally that wave is faster than the vehicle. The 'boom' happens when the surface of the moving vehicle hits the sound wave and pushes it.

If you shape the surface of the vehicle, you affect what happens when it hits the sound wave. There are a ton of things you can do to it - deflect the sound (often up), break it up into smaller sections, or even stretch it out so you get a less loud but longer sound.

Frankly it is amazing that it took us this long to figure out something this simple.

Henrico county (aka where Richmond Virginia is located) has enough power plants, they are short on transmission lines.

This is a common issue, as it is easier to convince Dominion (or other electrical companies) to build a new power plant, they are revenue generators. Few power plant have lost money. But substations and other transmission costs can be built in the wrong location and cost you more money than they generate.

So transmission lines tend to be looked at as infrastructure that costs you money, especially if it is not near a heavy population center.

The only time I have written a physical check in the past 5 years is for a present. You write it, stick it in a card and hand deliver it.

I cannot see any reason not to use some form of electronic payment for anything but a birthday/Christmas present.

Venmo, Zelle, ApplePay, Paypal, login to your bank account and wire the money,

For now at least, wearables require radio frequencies to work.

So block the radiowaves.

https://www.homedepot.com/pep/...

Paint the room with EMF shielding and you do not have to worry about any connections - not cellular, not bluetooth, nothing.

1) I did not suggest anything. I noted the problem was the minimal cost and theorized about what would happen if that cost was higher. You jumped to a conclusion that I did not make.

2) If I were to suggest something, I would suggest that the state charge the police to use the item and send the money to pay for legal aid attorneys for indigent defendants.

I think that's the real problem. People get so excited over things before they even examine it.

The anti-vax people will find a way to ruin this for everyone else.

Just like they managed to kill a US soldier and get about 200 of them sick simply by changing the rules so that the soldiers do not have to get vaccinated.