85 per cent of all journeys by car - taxes

Max B. Sawicky sawicky at bellatlantic.net
Sat Mar 23 09:17:05 PST 2002


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.



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