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- From: mjvande@pbhye.PacBell.COM (Mike Vandeman)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment,ca.politics
- Subject: Re: Save the Planet and the Economy at the Same time!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.153929.7870@pbhye.PacBell.COM>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 15:39:29 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.041755.4485@pbhye.PacBell.COM> <1992Dec22.004733.3897@megatek.com> <1992Dec22.033700.28258@s1.gov>
- Reply-To: mjvande@PacBell.COM (Mike Vandeman)
- Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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- -: 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?
-
- Where is your brain? I don't "loathe private transportation". I do
- like walking, bicycling, skateboarding, rollerblading, etc.
- And don't you want the rest of the country to share your views?
-