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Moonliner 02-15-2005 10:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight
No, it's a replacement of the gas tax, that's the whole point.

RTA. I don't see the word "replacment" in there. I say it's a suppliment.

Darkbeer 02-15-2005 10:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Moonliner
Ps. Don't worry too much. I doubt this is a REPLACEMENT to the gas tax. It's an ADDATION to the gas tax. SUV's will still pay more and so will hybrids. Right now hybrid drivers are not paying their fair share. Under this new plan they would.

From the original CBS news article...

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Officials in car-clogged California are so worried they may be considering a replacement for the gas tax altogether, replacing it with something called "tax by the mile."


Ghoulish Delight 02-15-2005 10:54 PM

Uuh.
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Officials in car-clogged California are so worried they may be considering a replacement for the gas tax altogether, replacing it with something called "tax by the mile."

Moonliner 02-15-2005 10:56 PM

Sorry, that's just fluff created by the reporter that wrote the article. Not an official statment.

Moonliner 02-15-2005 10:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Darkbeer
Same with the gasoline tax... Buy a car that pollutes less, uses less natural resources (aka gasoline), pay less in taxes.... This new proposal just cancels all the effort placed to get folks to use public transit and smaller cars, plus things like hybrids....

Now that's a much better point. However if you keep the gas tax and add a milage tax, you still stick it to the SUV's but also have enough money to keep the roads up.

Ghoulish Delight 02-15-2005 10:59 PM

Do you have something supporting this supposed "supplement" claim? I've heard about this several times and have ALWAYS heard it referred to as a replacement.

mousepod 02-15-2005 11:01 PM

I'm siding with Darkbeer on this one.
Moonliner, the one hole in your argument (for me, at least) is that you ignore the fact that people who bought Hummers and SUVs knew exactly what they were getting into when they made their purchase, just like the folks that bought hybrids.
Luxury costs, plain and simple. It's not a liberal thing or a conservative thing, it's an American thing. And it's not a bad thing.
I consider myself slightly left of center on most issues, yet I was incredibly incensed when people here in SF were defacing SUVs in The Mission district.
I don't think there's anything wrong with buying "nice things", just don't go all socialist when you realize you have to pay for the privilege of owning them.

Ghoulish Delight 02-15-2005 11:01 PM

Heck, there's no point in just making it a supplement. Why not just raise the existing gas tax? This seems completely superflous if they just want extra tax flow, what with the expense of setting the system up.

Not Afraid 02-15-2005 11:01 PM

I lease my car with a milage limitation on it and now there's a thought of limiting or charging more for the milage I do use.

What's the point in driving a fun, fast little Mercedes then????????


Joyless turds!:mad:

mhrc4 02-15-2005 11:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Not Afraid
I lease my car with a milage limitation on it and now there's a thought of limiting or charging more for the milage I do use.

What's the point in driving a fun, fast little Mercedes then????????
Joyless turds!:mad:

what model of little mercades?


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