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Buckster
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| eximius wrote: | | If they tried it in the uk there would be a revolution, never going to happen. |
Really? Who's currently paying to build, rebuild, improve and repair your roads and bridges?
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josephpalazzo
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| eximius wrote: | | If they tried it in the uk there would be a revolution, never going to happen. |
Ha, besides income tax, the national insurance, sales/VAT and the council tax, what other taxes do you pay in the UK? The last I heard, your national debt was 47% of GDP. |
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Confesionalian
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| caseagainstfaith wrote: | | Minimalist wrote: | | Just tax the gas. It's a hell of a lot easier. |
Here's the issue. Plug in electric cars are coming, like the Chevy Volt. On one hand, yes, it is in our nation's and our government's interest to make it less taxing to use less gas to encourage efficiency. But, we still need tax revenue to pay for roads and stuff. So, if people do start to move away from gas based vehicles, the revenue needs to be made up in another way. Now, it is still a ways off before that there are a lot of pure-electric cars around, but, the idea is to change the revenue model ahead of time. |
Cars which run on natural gas are also on the rise, btw. |
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aileron
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| Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Minimalist wrote: | | aileron wrote: | | Minimalist wrote: | | Just tax the gas. It's a hell of a lot easier. |
Yeah, they can get the same effect easier by just upping the gas tax -- it would also encourage more fuel efficient vehicles to avoid paying it. Why does the government want to make it more complicated and add more bureaucracy....... never mind... answered my own question. |
The IRS already processes the gasoline excise tax ( I used to work there and handled one of those cases!) and it doesn't matter what the rate is. Like all excise taxes it is far easier to collect from a relative handful of manufacturers/providers than from 300 million consumers. Perhaps the Congressman does not know that? |
Let's just put it this way. My dad called me once to tell me one of my former classmates was running for Congress. When he told me the name I almost ruptured my spleen laughing. Of all the people in my home town, he would have been about the last one on the list I would want representing people in Congress. He won, and won re-election. As they say, you get the elected official you deserve. |
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Minimalist
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Did you see Religulous? Bill Maher interviewed some senator who noted "there's no IQ test to be a senator."
But I think the point you seek to make is best reflected in this comment:
| Quote: | Those who have been present at any deliberative assemblies of men will have observed how erroneous their opinions often are; and in fact, unless they are directed by superior men, they are apt to be contrary to all reason.
- - Niccoló Machiavelli, The Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livy. 1517. |
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