Earth Day, turn those amps OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@samureyex Already removing the tax credit would be a step in the right direction. Having kids is a selfish hobby (Dawkins' "Selfish Gene"). I don't get a tax credit for the audio hobby either. Or for having a dog, or, or, or, ... 

Sensible people without kids won't pay any additional tax, so that line is wrong. But I not having any kids, pay for someone else's kids. Thank you very much.

Re politicians, agree broadly, so unless you want to refuse any and all taxes, then you should support taxes to shape human behavior (e.g. cigarette tax). A child tax is nothing else than an incentive not to have kids. One can consider exception for adopted kids, as there the kin-selection aspect falls away.

@audphile1 ,

All valid points, but that’s corporate consumption. This is about being personally responsible for the energy saving actions we are individually in control of.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to plug in and recharge my device and vacuum the laundry room before I put in a load of wash.

If you are here, you’ve got amps. That’s the subject, the rest is ....

interesting, but each and every decision you/we make has to fit your belief system.

who said ’you gotta believe’? not the movie, before that?

Was it about the 1969 Mets?

I know exactly where I was when they won: In a cab, stuck in traffic on 3rd avenue, outside the US Plywood Headquarters’ Building  at 49th street; horns blasting, computer paper flying down from everywhere (office windows opened then) (the big wide tractor feed printouts, some didn’t open on the way down, THUD).

"Having kids is a selfish hobby"

@oberoniaomnia ,

What a ridiculous statement.

@thecarpathian not corporate consumption. Satisfying supply demand. Sell all your electronics and go off grid. Help keep the planet safe. 
Trust me we’re not going to kill the planet by keeping our amps on. No sir. It’s been here for 4.5bil years. It will swallow you and me with all our amps, cables and vinyl records then schiit us out without even noticing. Don’t sweat it.