Via ABG:
Washington state may introduce MPG-based car taxes
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Senate Bill 6923 would impose a vehicle excise tax on all passenger vehicles based on EPA ratings of a cars' fuel efficiency. For example, the owner of a hybrid car such as, say, a Toyota Prius, would pay $60 in annual taxes, whereas the owner of a Hummer H3 would pay $180 a year.
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The tax would replace slumping revenue collected through the state's gas tax. Rising fuel costs have lured drivers from their cars while the increased popularity of gas-efficient vehicles has cut back on the number of trips drivers make to the pumps.
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Is it really true that this tax will hurt lower income people more, as some argue, because they can't afford to buy newer cars that get better mileage? Seems to me there are more
older cars that get better mileage than the latest crop of cars.
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