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Big Bill wrote:
Let's stop the whining, and get down to brass tacks: how do you want to do this? Make a workable proposal, as I did in another post. 1) Hog tax: I would propose that any business purchassing such vehicles not be taxed on purchassing the vehicle. (Together with stiff penalties for subverting the intent of the carefully worded law). Businesses are usually efficient, so there would not be purchasses that are not warranted of such vehicles. A private individual purchassing the vehicle would pay the detterence tax. A business providing a personal use vehicle as a perq to an employee would to pay the tax on behalf of the individual. In certain regions where winter driving (or other specific conditions) a primary resident would pay a lower tax. Again: primary residence. If you choose to have a chalet in a difficult to reach place, that's your problem. 2) Tax fuel according to the vehicle buying it. Add RFID's to the licence plates. When you gas up, the pump reads the RFID and imposes the appropriate fuel-hog tax. And cars that get superb efficiency are not only not taxed, but get a rebate for investing in efficiency. The threshold for the rebate is set to rise annually. (Punish the hogs; reward the camels). Plates sold to business use vehicles would have the RFID coded to have reduced tax. And again, very stiff penalties for attempting to subvert the system. The RFID's can be quite complex and encrypted to deter fraud, and if that is not enough more active means can be cheaply devised. Here, by the way, I've seen the revenue ministry pull over diesel powered cars and dip into their tanks to see if they're burning farm-diesel which has no taxes (or very little)... Cheers, Alan -- -- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- slr-systems FAQ project: http://tinyurl.com/6m9aw -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch. |
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On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:26:19 -0700, Big Bill wrote:
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 00:32:03 GMT, wrote: Similarly, I have know of a company which, when fuel was being switched to unleaded, cancelled their plans to buy a fleet of half-ton vans in favor of totally unneeded full-ton vans because the larger vehicles were still allowed to use the slightly cheaper leaded fuel. Damn the environment -- full business ahead. Why those, those sputter CAPITALISTS! How dare they even *THINK* of their bottom line! That's UnAmerican! Thank you for your heroic essay n social and environmental responsibility. Sometimes, when there's little actual benefit to the bottom line, it would be nice to consider other issues. Unless you think think ten cents to the bottom line is worth more than anything else on earth. |
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On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:37:57 -0700, Big Bill wrote:
"I guess all that use of "market" was anti-choice. Choice is a moral issue, not an economic one. Choices are not inherently better or worse from an economic perspective. A free and fair market Show me one that hasn't been hijacked by those with the greatest economic interest and power. Free market is a myth. Unless you consider one bent to benefit the wishes of a particular group to still be free. allows efficient price setting and so efficient allocation. From a moral perspective choice is one of many qualities to be maximized, but not the only one." |
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On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 09:09:51 -0700, Big Bill wrote:
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 10:35:05 -0400, Alan Browne wrote: And you want to make sure they are outlawed? No, just tax them and the fuel they burn until nobody buys them. Ah, so you want to get all Hummers off the roads, including those that are used in businesses? The social and environmental costs are no different just because a business uses the vehicle. Notice that businesses can always afford things which the average consumer could nt justify on the basis of occasional need. So if the business really needs one of the guzzlers, let them pay in accordance with the social costs of their choice. And just how do you propose to tax the gas for Hummers (and, I will suppose, other vehicles you don't like)? Let's stop the whining, and get down to brass tacks: how do you want to do this? Make a workable proposal, as I did in another post. |
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Big Bill wrote:
And if they were considered cars, so would all other light trucks in that weight class. Is that what you want? Because that's what you're saying. "The output of the nation's factories fell for the first time in six months, manufacturing in bellwether New York state grew at the slowest pace in two years and consumer confidence fell to its lowest level in a year and a half, today's economic statistics showed. Those reports compounded the concerns raised earlier by weak retail sales and a growing crisis in the auto industry -- both blamed on high energy prices." Wash Post 2005.04.15 "Shares of General Motors, Ford and DaimlerChrysler all fell again today as investors continue to desert Detroit. GM bonds were trading for between 75 and 80 cents on the dollar because investors were reluctant to make long-term bets on the future of the Big Three." Wash Post 2005.04.15 "While the price of crude oil has fallen back close to $50 a barrel, gasoline prices are reaching record highs and consumers seem to be feeling the impact and curtailing spending, according to some economists." NYT 2005.04.15 "The question is who will pay for the cleanup. United Water, a subsidiary of Suez S.A., has sued the manufacturers of MTBE to recover its costs. And as hundreds of communities from coast to coast are finding the additive in their water systems, the issue of paying for the cleanup is becoming increasingly contentious. If oil and chemical companies have their way, a majority of lawsuits like United Water's will be thrown out by Congress as part of the energy bill backed by the Bush administration. The bill, which won easy approval from the House Energy and Commerce Committee late Wednesday, includes a waiver that would protect the chemical makers, which are some of the biggest oil giants in the United States, from all MTBE liability lawsuits filed since September 2003." NYT 2005.04.15 tick, tick, tick, tick, tick... -- -- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- slr-systems FAQ project: http://tinyurl.com/6m9aw -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch. |
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Big Bill wrote:
And if they were considered cars, so would all other light trucks in that weight class. Is that what you want? Because that's what you're saying. "The output of the nation's factories fell for the first time in six months, manufacturing in bellwether New York state grew at the slowest pace in two years and consumer confidence fell to its lowest level in a year and a half, today's economic statistics showed. Those reports compounded the concerns raised earlier by weak retail sales and a growing crisis in the auto industry -- both blamed on high energy prices." Wash Post 2005.04.15 "Shares of General Motors, Ford and DaimlerChrysler all fell again today as investors continue to desert Detroit. GM bonds were trading for between 75 and 80 cents on the dollar because investors were reluctant to make long-term bets on the future of the Big Three." Wash Post 2005.04.15 "While the price of crude oil has fallen back close to $50 a barrel, gasoline prices are reaching record highs and consumers seem to be feeling the impact and curtailing spending, according to some economists." NYT 2005.04.15 "The question is who will pay for the cleanup. United Water, a subsidiary of Suez S.A., has sued the manufacturers of MTBE to recover its costs. And as hundreds of communities from coast to coast are finding the additive in their water systems, the issue of paying for the cleanup is becoming increasingly contentious. If oil and chemical companies have their way, a majority of lawsuits like United Water's will be thrown out by Congress as part of the energy bill backed by the Bush administration. The bill, which won easy approval from the House Energy and Commerce Committee late Wednesday, includes a waiver that would protect the chemical makers, which are some of the biggest oil giants in the United States, from all MTBE liability lawsuits filed since September 2003." NYT 2005.04.15 tick, tick, tick, tick, tick... -- -- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- slr-systems FAQ project: http://tinyurl.com/6m9aw -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch. |
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On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 17:46:49 -0400, Alan Browne
wrote: Big Bill wrote: And if they were considered cars, so would all other light trucks in that weight class. Is that what you want? Because that's what you're saying. "The output of the nation's factories fell for the first time in six months, manufacturing in bellwether New York state grew at the slowest pace in two years and consumer confidence fell to its lowest level in a year and a half, today's economic statistics showed. Those reports compounded the concerns raised earlier by weak retail sales and a growing crisis in the auto industry -- both blamed on high energy prices." Wash Post 2005.04.15 "Shares of General Motors, Ford and DaimlerChrysler all fell again today as investors continue to desert Detroit. GM bonds were trading for between 75 and 80 cents on the dollar because investors were reluctant to make long-term bets on the future of the Big Three." Wash Post 2005.04.15 "While the price of crude oil has fallen back close to $50 a barrel, gasoline prices are reaching record highs and consumers seem to be feeling the impact and curtailing spending, according to some economists." NYT 2005.04.15 "The question is who will pay for the cleanup. United Water, a subsidiary of Suez S.A., has sued the manufacturers of MTBE to recover its costs. And as hundreds of communities from coast to coast are finding the additive in their water systems, the issue of paying for the cleanup is becoming increasingly contentious. If oil and chemical companies have their way, a majority of lawsuits like United Water's will be thrown out by Congress as part of the energy bill backed by the Bush administration. The bill, which won easy approval from the House Energy and Commerce Committee late Wednesday, includes a waiver that would protect the chemical makers, which are some of the biggest oil giants in the United States, from all MTBE liability lawsuits filed since September 2003." NYT 2005.04.15 tick, tick, tick, tick, tick... And you want to make it worse. -- Bill Funk Change "g" to "a" |
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