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Why are we incentivizing huge vehicles, sigh =/

• toomuchtodo 3y ago
  We’re incentivizing business capital investments. Certainly, it’s not always efficient (Hummers that used this tax treatment), but that is the intent. It would be more optimal if trucks didn’t keep getting bigger, but trucks are still needed for work purposes.
  • solardev 3y ago
    Then why not just incentivize work vehicles, be they large trucks or electric sedans?
    • toomuchtodo 3y ago
      Because that is not the criteria codified in statute.
      • solardev 3y ago
        Seems like a tautology
      • dymk 3y ago
        That’s called incentivizing large vehicles
    • travisb 3y ago
      The reason was to avoid tax advantaging sports cars or luxury sedans for executives. At the time SUVs were utilitarian and unfashionable so dividing by weight seemed an easy way to distinguish between "real" work vehicles and "fake" work vehicles. Of course it backfired so now 6500 pound SUVs (and even luxury sedans!) are easily acquired.