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Old 08-18-2017, 01:59 PM   #27 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jakobnev View Post
I disagree, we have had 50mpg+ cars for over 30 years. It would not be a tax on low incomes, it would be a tax on poor decisions.

And high mpg cars are cheaper than low mpg cars, further making it nonsensical to call it a tax on the poor.
It hurts the poor the most. It's not just their individual car, food and other necessity prices will go up as well. But just look at the car. If you doubled or tripled the price of a gallon of gas with tax you double or triple the hit to the budget for gas. No big deal when you can afford the real estate prices that get higher the closer you get to good jobs. No big deal when that budget is a tiny fraction of your overall budget. No big deal when you buy a new or newer car every few years. The family priced into a home with a hour commute making average wages driving an average car it is a huge deal. Maybe we can get them all into some kind of government project housing in the middle of big cities. Yeah that's the life.
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