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When American treats their poor and middle class like Europe does; we'll talk about higher gas taxes. Sorry about being blunt, but higher gas taxes will just h
by marincounty 11y ago
When American treats their poor and middle class like Europe does; we'll talk about higher gas taxes.
Sorry about being blunt, but higher gas taxes will just hurt guys like me.
The poor and middle class need to commute. The poor and middle class can't afforded the latest energy efficient vechicles. We are tied to our old vechicles. We repair our old vechicles. The last thing we need are higher gas taxes.
I would like to see higher gas taxes, but let's tie it to income? While I'm a little tipsy, why not tie traffic fines/fees to income?
A rich man gets a traffic violation; he tells his wife over dinner.
A poor man get a traffic violation; he just might not make rent that month?
Since, I was 15.5, I never felt that was fair.
Happy thanksgiving!
- bkor 11y agoAlways staying with the status quo won't help as well. But taxing in accordance with income would help a lot. And I mean the effective tax, not before loads of discounts are applied. Same for taxing companies. The bigger ones usually don't pay much, allowing them to become inefficient as well as bigger. Still, waiting for perfect situation isn't going to help. There's still money needed to maintain the infrastructure.
- zurn 11y agoIt might be a good idea to package this together with increasing income transfers so that for low income citizens the increase in gas taxes would on average be compensated, but they would be free to use it for things other than burning gas if they wanted. This would then keep the disincentive for wasting fuel intact, and prop up low income citizens at the same time.