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- From: lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich)
- Subject: Re: Save the Planet and the Economy at the Same time!
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 03:37:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.004733.3897@megatek.com> cjp@megatek.com (Chris "Systems Stud" Pikus) writes:
- >mjvande@pbhye.PacBell.COM (Mike Vandeman) writes:
-
- : The
- : answer is to apply appropriate taxes to the ownership, fuelling,
- : and operation of automobiles and other motor vehicles,
- : approximately in proportion to the damage they do.
-
- > You overlooked the fact that transportation is an integral
- >part of our economy. Just about every good and service produced in
- >the US requires some sort of transport to deliver it to the consumer;
- >railroads and horse-drawn carts will not suffice. The ripple effect
- >[trickle-down -- yes] of passing these taxes on to the consumer will
- >shrink our economy down to a point sized singularity.
-
- Tax money does not disappear into a black hole, right-wing
- economists to the contrary.
-
- Instead, it gets returned to the economy in the form of
- various government expenditures. Whether these expenditures are
- productive ones or not is another question entirely. Even
- right-wingers like to see tax money spent on things that they like;
- I've yet to see a right-winger denounce military spending or spending
- on law enforcement or roads or any other of their favorite causes.
-
- : I would be happy to help you work out these and similar
- : policies.
-
- > I'm sure you would. Why is it, Michael, that you loathe
- >private transportation so much that you want to the rest of the
- >country to share your views?
-
- I myself am not opposed to cars; I just want alternatives to
- them to be abundant and readily available. I also want to see it
- possible to have a minimum dependence on the car. I don't own a car,
- and I don't like being made into a second-class citizen by a bunch of
- carheads.
- --
- /Loren Petrich, the Master Blaster
- /lip@s1.gov
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