Reply #12: Several things you left out...

[Enquiringkitty]

More poor and elderly people would freeze to death each year due to lack of funds to pay for the higher fuel prices (We already have many deaths each years).

All services which take the disabled and elderly to doctor visits and such wouldn't be able to raise enough money to keep the services going so those people would have to do without health visits...might lead to more deaths.

People who have several children and can't afford anything but an old car would have a hard time taking their kids to school and to check-ups not to mention getting back and forth to their minimum wage jobs so something would have to be left off. Work would be a priority so the kids would just have to stay sick....Who cares...look at all of the savings!

All of this would rid our society of the dead weight who isn't pulling their weight anyway...as long as things get more efficient and money is saved....let's just not think about the people who wouldn't survive the changes. Give me a break!

Look at all of the social impacts first the effects on all people before saying if an idea is good or bad.