Comments on: As Tax Increases Go, This One Would Be A Humdinger. http://www.sundriesshack.com/2011/05/05/as-tax-increases-go-this-one-would-be-a-humdinger/ Delivering the Best of the New Media Since 2004. Sat, 26 May 2012 07:05:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jimmiehttp://www.sundriesshack.com/2011/05/05/as-tax-increases-go-this-one-would-be-a-humdinger/comment-page-1/#comment-702681 Jimmie Thu, 05 May 2011 22:36:32 +0000 http://www.sundriesshack.com/?p=15829#comment-702681 My guess is that the "pay at the pump" part of the proposal would handle that, perhaps with some sort of rate based on how frequently you filled up. My guess is that the “pay at the pump” part of the proposal would handle that, perhaps with some sort of rate based on how frequently you filled up.

]]> By: EricHhttp://www.sundriesshack.com/2011/05/05/as-tax-increases-go-this-one-would-be-a-humdinger/comment-page-1/#comment-702678 EricH Thu, 05 May 2011 21:07:43 +0000 http://www.sundriesshack.com/?p=15829#comment-702678 "Democrats are trying to drive up the cost of driving a car so that people would change their lifestyles to ones better-suited to the progressive ideology." Here's what I don't get: if you want to encourage green energy use--and as I understand it, that's the end goal that the progressives are shooting for--then taxing based on mileage is exactly backward. Because the driver who spends thousands of extra dollars for an electric car ends up paying just as much toward this tax as the SUV driver who gets 15 miles to the gallon. If it doesn't correlate to fuel consumption, it's no incentive at all. "Democrats are trying to drive up the cost of driving a car so that people would change their lifestyles to ones better-suited to the progressive ideology."
Here's what I don't get: if you want to encourage green energy use–and as I understand it, that's the end goal that the progressives are shooting for–then taxing based on mileage is exactly backward. Because the driver who spends thousands of extra dollars for an electric car ends up paying just as much toward this tax as the SUV driver who gets 15 miles to the gallon. If it doesn't correlate to fuel consumption, it's no incentive at all.

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