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There should be a vehicle weight tax per mile driven for the damage they cause and the infrastructure upgrades needed to accommodate them. Buying a larger vehic
by alwayslikethis 3y ago
There should be a vehicle weight tax per mile driven for the damage they cause and the infrastructure upgrades needed to accommodate them. Buying a larger vehicle is a choice and should not be subsidized by everyone else.
- redsoundbanner 3y agoViolent revolution is more realistic than passing a non-regressive tax law in the US.
- kjkjadksj 3y agoThat must be why we have so many violent revolutions and so few taxes
- klyrs 3y ago"non-regressive" was doing all the work in that sentence
- kjkjadksj 3y agoPlenty of taxes are progressive. Despite being demonified by the right, they couldn’t do away with progressive Obamacare when they had congress and the white house in their hands recently despite almost a decade of promise saying they’d do it as soon as they had power. Turns out maybe progressive taxes aren’t that unthinkable after all if even the republicans couldn’t kill Obamacare
- BenFranklin100 3y agoAs an aside, US income tax is very progressive by international norms. https://www.econlib.org/lower-income-americans-are-taxed-much-less-heavily-than-lower-income-europeans/ https://www.econlib.org/lower-income-americans-are-taxed-muc...
- redsoundbanner 3y ago[flagged]
- zelon88 3y agoBuying a smaller car is a choice. Like having the least expensive insurance policy. I'm specifically gonna buy a bigger vehicle to keep the Toyota Corollas of the world from killing me in an accident. Mass is the greatest, most significant safety feature you can get in an automobile.
- Suppafly 3y agoI wonder if this is the game theory reason for so many people buying trucks now. Trucks keep getting bigger and bigger as a defense mechanism or something.
- zelon88 3y agoAbsolutely. 1000%. I buy trucks primarily because the capability aligns with my hobbies, and secondarily because the mass affords me additional safety. My F150 is 6,000lbs. I imagine a 2,800lb Corolla wouldn't fair too well in a frontal offset crash with me. Infact my vehicle would maintain forward inertia. The Corolla would reverse direction. That's a lot of Gs that the Corolla gets that I won't.
- I_Am_Nous 3y agoAll of that benefit is lost if you swerve and start rolling over like trucks with a higher center of gravity tend to. All that extra weight is harder to stop if you need to as well, so it's not purely a safety upgrade.
- tonyedgecombe 3y agoI remember Top Gear doing a feature on this. If I remember correctly SUVs were four times more likely to turn over in an accident than a traditional saloon car.
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- noqc 3y ago