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To the extent that car owners are subsidizing the trucking industry, and to the extent that trucking industry subsidies flow through to the cost of goods delive
by zaroth 7y ago
To the extent that car owners are subsidizing the trucking industry, and to the extent that trucking industry subsidies flow through to the cost of goods delivered by trucks (the same thing as saying that increased trucking costs flow through to goods delivered by truck), then shifting the balance necessarily means car owners paying less and non-car owners paying more.
I will admit I stumbled upon this conclusion and felt it was ironically juicy and a bit provocative, but it seems like pretty solid macroeconomics to me!
- ska 7y agoAgreed, I worded that badly - what I meant is that non-car owners could still save more by not driving than the delta on the goods, potentially, as they are paying only the fractional cost that they are actually consuming, if everything else was "correctly" redistributed. This is all complicated though by the way we actually pay for all of this, so it's not as simple as car owners subsidizing. It's not like the gas tax covers this.