Why should anything cost anybody anything? *SMIRK*
And if I buy a $1K beater car, can I keep the $9K they're giving away? I can? Yippee!!!
How 'bout a $5000 check to anyone who replaces an overseas software guy with a American one?
ML/NJ (software guy)
And just like college tuition.....
.....the price will rise to absorb the subsidy.
Just give every person living in America — citizen, legal immigrant, illegal, tourist, whatever — ten million dollars.
Then everybody can buy everything and the economic problems are all solved!
Why didn’t anyone think of this sooner?
oooohhhh, I was only dreaming......
I want a pony!!!
Can I have a free pony too?
Even if we get a voucher, there will be strings attached.. Meaning you can’t buy an SUV or truck and it has to be from the Dead Three auto companies..
Ha, Free? That just means the dealers can add 5k to the sticker. Makes me want to vomit that I own 3 cars I bought from Bergtrom in Neenah......
So an industry can’t weather an 11% downturn? 11% doesn’t seem like the end of the world. What the heck?
Next will be the American Dental Association demanding 5K vouchers for getting teeth fixed!
Pick ‘n Pay will demanding $100K vouchers for shoes.
Costco will be asking for $2,000K vouchers for food.
Ayn Rand was a prophetess!
The customer thinks this is a “giveaway” to benefit them.
But this is the dealer talking, and HE thinks this is a giveaway to benefit HIM.
The dealer thinks that, given the voucher, he can raise prices, or avoid giving a discount. So the customer will pay the SAME NET PRICE for the car.
I don’t understand why people don’t get this.
Another scary thing to contemplate: Bambi’s bailout contains how much — $billions? — of “health care subsidies”.
As sure as night follows day, INCREASED HEALTH COSTS will follow these subsidies.
This guy’s a genius at spending other people’s money!
I'm pretty sure this won't happen. If they know that the person buying the car has $10,000 of someone else's money then that $10,000 car becomes $11,000 or $15000. It's like the vouchers for the cable box for the digital switch. In the free market they would be sold for $10 or $15.00 bucks. Government vouchers forced the price up to $45 or $50 bucks.
Only a demrat would think that giving someone $5000 of tax payer money to puchase anything is somehow gonna help the economy. Only a demrat ignores the fact that tax dollar coffers are broke at every government leval.
It’s right up there with so-called “free” cradle to grave government-run health care. This model has failed everywhere it’s been tried, but by the Marxist god the left is determined take us down this road again and again. The result is as predicatable as a sunrise—trillions of tax payer dollars wasted.
The thing is that nobody wants to buy ANY car right now. Those who were buying at $30K are not now buying at $20K. Car dealers are good at pulling numbers out of thin air, and this is just another example of that.
Didn’t the auto makers do this with the rebate a few years ago? Their sales went through the roof. But, of course, the auto makes probably don’t have cash to spare anymore.
You’ve got to give this guy the prize for the most self enriching special interest proposal yet.