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Originally Posted by oldtamiyaphile
I'm not in America, but I'd support dropping car purchase taxes to zero (including spare parts and servicing) and raising fuel taxes accordingly.
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As far as I know the US doesn't tax car purchases or the purchase of parts or service. Some individual states or cities do. The fuel taxes should only be to the extent of funding the infrastructure and some leeway should be allowed for the amount of GNP that is created by the use of that infrastructure. That is, why should roads have to 100% pay for themselves (especially when nothing else does) when they are the back bone of the over all economy?
On another note I would argue that nothing short of the Constitution itself has contributed more to our individual freedom then our automobile culture with low priced fuel and massive free road and highway system.