It's nearly that time of year when Wayne and Waynetta hang 40000 candle power of fairy lights off their gutterings and down the front porch.
It's getting close to the time when every single family needs to consider how to pay the electric bill, and also whether there will even be enough electricity for the growing population in the next 50 years.
Should it be acceptable for literally millions of homes to be bedecked with trillions of electric light bulbs? Some of these homes look like this:
and I'm sure you know many near you.
Maybe YOUR home looks like this?
Is it fair or right or proper for this to occur? Even though the people are paying for the bulbs and the electricity.... is it ethical?
You could argue that a big engined car is bad for the environment. It IS....you're right. And it now pays larger amounts of Road Fund License. SO efective has this been that sales of larger engines Auto petrol cars has dropped off hugely. So it works... tax the bad emmiters.
Should we perhaps TAX these Christmas lights? Non on the sale of them.. that's already done with VAT. But should people have o perhaps BUY a certificate every year to be allowed to deck the guttering with eye watering brightness?
Or should I just leave them alone... let them ruin my ability to sleep at night, and force me to put up card board sheets at the windows to block out the flashing Santa's and the Neon Reindeer
Tax 'em I say.. tax em till they bleed as much as my eyes do