85 per cent of all journeys by car - taxes

[Max B. Sawicky]

An emissions tax would be no less regressive
than a plain gas tax.  Maybe more so.  As for
telling "farmers, fisherman, private truckers,"
etc. to go fuck themselves, well, you have your
political tactics and I have mine.

mbs

	Only a person subject to crippling Demo-think could decide that a tax
credit is a nice, easy way to undo the regressivity of a consumption tax.
The only consumption tax that makes sense is to tax vehicles per emissions.
That way, green-minded working people can opt not to be penalized.  But you
would have to have the courage of your convictions because certain users of
large light trucks and diesel vehicles are going to go nuts.  You have to be
willing to tell farmers, fishermen, private truckers, small construction
contractors and other to go fuck themselves and to paint the interests of
these very working-class-seeming folks as nasty and petit bourgeois.  You
have to sell a class distinction.