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- From: mike@execu.execu.com (Mike McCants)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: Save the Planet and destroy the Economy at the Same time!
- Message-ID: <4810@execu.execu.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 21:53:16 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.041755.4485@pbhye.PacBell.COM>
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- Organization: Comshare, Inc. Austin Development Center
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- In article (Mike Vandeman) writes:
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- >The answer is to apply appropriate taxes to the ownership, fueling,
- >and operation of automobiles and other motor vehicles,
- >approximately in proportion to the damage they do.
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- What a great idea. I would love to see the Democrats pass a law
- taxing motor vehicles according to the amount of "damage" they do.
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- Of course a few other people have already proposed the simple raising
- of the federal gasoline tax. Surely something much more complicated
- is called for here.
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- Don't we need a new bureaucracy to determine how many miles each
- motor vehicle is driven each month and how much damage that vehicle
- is causing? Maybe Mike Vandeman deserves a cabinet-level position!
- [Nah - he's almost certainly a white male.]
-