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That's the point. It exempts the poors who live in a shoebox apartment and take the bus and crushes the ones who are living far from their job and slogging out
by throwaway0a5e 5y ago
That's the point. It exempts the poors who live in a shoebox apartment and take the bus and crushes the ones who are living far from their job and slogging out a crazy commute.
- r00fus 5y agoI doubt a decently sized gas tax (a few cents a gallon) would "crush" those who are commuting from afar. Compared to the inflation already present for years in healthcare, housing/rent and college - all things with double digits for over a decade - the cost of gas rising a dime or two a gallon wouldn't even be noticed with the fluctuation of gas prices as is.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoIt won't be a few cents because few cents/gal isn't going to get the behavior change that is the point of the tax. The fundamental issue here is that you need to take what a lot of people currently see as their best option (driving an ICE car) and make that sufficiently worse so that the next best option is the one tons of people choose. Anything that gets the behavior change will necessarily screw a lot of people.
- r00fus 5y ago> Anything that gets the behavior change will necessarily screw a lot of people. I disagree. Just look elsewhere around the world. It's doable, we just don't do it.