Posted on 04/03/2008 7:57:13 AM PDT by SmithL
Isn’t there already a gas guzzler tax?
But the survey, conducted by Asha Weinstein Agrawal, a research associate with the university's Mineta Transportation InstituteNo bias there, I'm sure.
Already taken care of by the gas tax. The more gas you burn, the more tax you pay.
Guzzle down twice as many gallons, pay twice as much of the per-gallon tax.
If a person is driving a gas gussler he is already paying more taxes. California is becoming a real socialist state. i don’t know if there is a possibility of it5 recovering.
Make liberals pay higher income taxes.
Since there are massive taxes on gasoline already don’t “gas guzzlers”, by definition, already pay higher “fees”?
“Fee”, from the standpoint of government, being simply another name for tax.
BECOMING?
They make it sound like every gas guzzler is some kind of over-kill exotic Hummer or something. I need my utility van for the work I do......I can’t help it if it happens to be a guzzler.
Actually, you CAN help it. Let's say you make cabinets for a living. You drive your guzzler van to some rich guy's home to hang some nice cabinetry in their wine tasting patio. You tell the guy "Well, you see, you're using a lot of cabinets, fella, and we're going to have to add on a Cabinet Guzzer Tax of an additional 25%, since after all, it's only fair."
MORE Class warfare.
.....my Hummer is neither "over-kill" nor "exotic".....
.....just a big green truck that can go off road better than my pick-up.....
.....and has the same engine and MPG as my pick-up.....
.....it's just the "chic" target de'jore of the panty wasted left commie tree huggin wussies that want to penalize me for having the "means" to drive what I want.....
If we uses taxes to discourage buying gas guzzlers and people do in fact switch to higher mileage cars there will be less tax revenue from gasoline taxes. Kind of a vicious circle.
Don’t “gas guzzlers” already pay more because they use more gasoline? Unless they don’t use more gasoline because they don’t drive so much. In which case, what’s the problem?
You’re right of course. Hummer wasn’t really the word I was looking for. But you got my point.
~</;o)
Makes sense to me. Heck, you'd think they'd be happy to contribute more by themselves...they could get that warm fuzzy and superior feeling all at the same time.
.....sorry, after 5 years of stupid remarks and questions from dumb-arses at gas stations.....
.....I've gotten thin skinned in my grumpy old age.....
.....and yes I got your point.....
.....and I feel your pain!.....;)
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