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If you give everyone a no questions asked 100% subsidy, you're gonna have a lot of people reselling bikes that the government paid for.
by kaibee 4y ago
If you give everyone a no questions asked 100% subsidy, you're gonna have a lot of people reselling bikes that the government paid for.
- jacquesm 4y agoThey'd have to resell them abroad though, the local market would be pretty much saturated, no?
- danielheath 4y agoIt's not difficult to get from Paris to Barcelona and back, with or without a bike.
- Scoundreller 4y agoIf I need to offload an ebike from Paris, I could think of closer countries that would value them higher!
- antasvara 4y agoIsn't that true of any subsidy? If 40% of my bike is subsidized, I only need to buy and resell that bike for greater than 60% of the purchase price. I bet you'd get less resellers, but you'd definitely still get a lot of them.
- andrepd 4y agoThat is true with any amount of subsidy. And yes, and people can use e.g. welfare payments to buy cigarrettes and booze. That is in itself not an argument against welfare payments.
- InitialLastName 4y agoWhy would you buy a bike from a reseller for $0 + profit when you can get one the with a government subsidy for $0?