A more nuanced, but perhaps more workable solution, would be to weight tax relief towards charities that work to alleviate poverty and suffering.
Musk's elaborate vision may have attracted plenty of media attention and Silicon Valley funding, but it also highlights society's tendency to get caught up with new transportation technologies, instead of the less exciting but perhaps more workable solutions - some of which may already exist.
Workable, perhaps, but infuriating.
As soon as the ground is workable, (perhaps soon in sunny places) the adventurous can set out a few pansy plants in tubs or in flower borders just to provide a bit of color.
His suggestion has unassailable common sense and is perhaps the most workable solution holding promise for millions of other species.
Despite many areas of seemingly irreconcilable policy differences and a dizzying array of intractable problems to be solved, Plan A offers the best, and perhaps the only workable path in 2011 and beyond, and Democrats have little choice other than to embrace the opportunities.
We will see if this policy is workable – which perhaps it was never intended to be.
The first-past-the-post electoral system, however, was thought to be in workable shape — unwieldy, perhaps, and long overdue, some said, for structural reform, but not in itself a cause for Dickensian outrage.
If Reid and President Obama decide that the House Democrats have a workable plan -- perhaps the only viable plan left, after the New York Times declared that the brakes had been slammed -- they may be able to accomplish it.
I think a workable plus-tick rule with, perhaps, some sort of a circuit broker built into it may be the way to go.
