At least you’re honest about it.
But your tax rebates don’t come out of thin air or free. Having a hard time understanding why the government/taxpayer needs to give you money for your decisions.
Agree totally about how the tax rebates don’t come out of thin air or are free. Also, I’m fairly well off and don’t really think they should go to me for subsidizing my solar panels, etc.
On the other hand, they are there and so why shouldn’t I potentially take advantage of them?
Since TESLAs are fairly expensive, the small rebate for the charger was irrelevant for my decision. I didn’t get any rebate for the purchase of the car. Now rebates only go to GM, etc. ev cars, which are inferior to TESLAs, in my opinion. The rebates are roughly 7k and when they are gone, GM will just charge about 7k more for their ev cars. Go figure.
On the other hand, the gov paying about 1/3 for my cheap solar system, costing roughly 7k, slightly influenced me to get this.
Again, I’m not a green new deal guy, but small solar systems on roofs of average sized homes like mine that cover roughly 2/3 of my electricity make sense to me, as opposed to trillions of dollars for windmills that are much less efficient. I would agree with you, though, that somebody like me should not get gov subsidies for this.
The solar subsidies have gone down a fair amount over the last few years before I took the plunge. Fortunately, BBB failed which would have funded things like I benefited from more.