The richest 1% in the Netherlands pay relatively less tax than everyone else and their incomes have risen more sharply, according to new calculations by the government’s macro-economic forecasting agency CPB. Earlier research, based on figures from 2016, showed that people on the highest incomes pay less tax and the new figures, based on the period 2011 to 2019, paint a similar picture. The very richest, or 0.01% of the population, paid a tax rate of some 28%, well below the 40% paid by people with average incomes...
Power companies originally had to pay you for adding excess power to the grid in the U.S., but states keep passing laws that say they don’t have to. I guess it could be worse.
Short version sort of the same. The surplus they had to pay you an amount but now you pay for wat you deliver them and they cannsell that to others so they make 2x the money, from me who supplies it and the person that uses it.
Power companies originally had to pay you for adding excess power to the grid in the U.S., but states keep passing laws that say they don’t have to. I guess it could be worse.
Short version sort of the same. The surplus they had to pay you an amount but now you pay for wat you deliver them and they cannsell that to others so they make 2x the money, from me who supplies it and the person that uses it.
See Texas…
Here in Indiana too.