A better solution for encouraging people to drive more fuel-efficient cars is to impose an excise tax based on engine displacement and physical size of a car--something that has been done in Europe and Japan for several decades.
A better solution for encouraging people to drive more fuel-efficient cars is to impose an excise tax based on engine displacement and physical size of a car--something that has been done in Europe and Japan for several decades.
“This is a TERRIBLE way to generate tax revenue.
A better solution for encouraging people to drive more fuel-efficient cars is to impose an excise tax based on engine displacement and physical size of a car—something that has been done in Europe and Japan for several decades”
Your missing the point, what happens once the gas prices go up due to excessive taxes and others, and the Federal standards that Obama has required on the Auto industry? What will they tax next, once they spend all that money up? If you drive an fuel efficient car, they still want to be able to tax you.
FAIL!! Where are you posting from; the Supreme Court??
You actually think we care to imitate the overbearing tax-raising methods of used-ta-was European socialist governments??
Get me the name of your dealer, 'cuz you're smokin' some SERIOUS hooch!
See, here in this Constitutional Republic, the way we go about encouraging people to drive more efficient cars is — and this is really novel — WE ACTUALLY TRY TO MARKET EFFICIENT CARS THAT PEOPLE WANT TO DRIVE!!
You know what happens then?
The people that want to drive them go out and buy them, and they actually DRIVE them.
I'm tellin' ya, man; the free market is totally righteous; you oughta try it sometime.
P.S. — Senator McCain, tell your Euroweenie friends to piss off.