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Gas is $3 / gallon here. Most of what you are paying IS taxes. The problem with no income tax is the poor spend more of their income, so end up paying more tax
by vorpalhex 3y ago
Gas is $3 / gallon here. Most of what you are paying IS taxes.
The problem with no income tax is the poor spend more of their income, so end up paying more taxes AND the overall tax revenue decreases.
You may be able to buy a new $40,000 car. Most of the population can not.
I suppose "just freeze a bit" will save a few pennies...
- wiredfool 3y agoGas is 8 a gallon (1.85 eur/l) here, and it’s about 50c/l in road fuel tax. (As compared to the agri diesel prices) The spike since the Ukraine war hasn’t really changed behavior that much, possibly because the baseline vehicle here is far more fuel efficient than the US.
- kube-system 3y agoThe highest gasoline taxes in the US are a combined state + federal total of $0.76/gallon in Pennsylvania.
- vorpalhex 3y agoWell wrong twice over. Direct "gasoline" tax is $0.77 in California. Further there's an excise tax, a greenhouse gas tax and so on. So $1.18 per gallon directly for gas... But hold on, California also taxes underground storage tanks, the transportation of gasoline, and so on. It doesn't cost $4/gal to transport gas from Texas to California. Your gas station owners aren't making that much profit.
- wing-_-nuts 3y agoThe tax credit could be designed in such a way to be progressive and actually benefit the poor. Honestly, most of the time when I see a 'just think of the poor!' argument against a carbon tax, it's typically from someone living in a mcMansion with a $400 power bill who drives an f250 to get groceries. I realize they'd be perfectly happy with business as usual, but that's not the change we need.