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I walk and ride my bike, I don't have any kind of car or ev. How's fair that with my taxes I'll be financing someone else's car? (Hint: it's not fair)
by frankreyes 3y ago
I walk and ride my bike, I don't have any kind of car or ev. How's fair that with my taxes I'll be financing someone else's car? (Hint: it's not fair)
- kccqzy 3y agoThen it would depend on the nature of the taxes. If the government is smart, they would only use taxes related to motor vehicles to finance this infrastructure. Think vehicle registration, fuel taxes, sales taxes on vehicles, sales taxes on automotive parts, etc. Whether or not it's fair enough depends on how much your government tries to make it fair. (As a fellow cyclist I am also cognizant of the fact that roads are mostly paid for by gasoline taxes where I live, and I also enjoy subsidized infrastructure that way.)
- frankreyes 3y ago> If the government is smart. My point exactly. In light of the last 2000 years of history, what do you think is more plausible? (A) the government being smart, or (B) the government spending more than it makes and then raising debt and taxes for useless projects?
- kccqzy 3y agoThis is a defeatist attitude. Because the government is not smart, so we should abolish taxes and government incentives? Preach your anarchism somewhere else.
- frankreyes 3y agoI have provided evidence to support my claims, based on facts and reality. You haven't. Keep on dreaming, but that day will never come.
- ShadowBanThis01 3y agoWell, here in the U.S. we're all financing someone else's kids. And their cars. And and and...