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Originally Posted by 3.8TransAM
Let's get to the heart of the matter, the government far outstepping its bounds. The 2012 EPA mandates courtesy of Obama were a joke foisted upon the too stupid public to see the writing on the walls. Sure it will save you $200 in gas a year, but the car will cost 1200 more, then 1800, then 2500 more and on and on. The EPA should have had its wings clipped a long time ago. No one bothers to read bills and the stupidity contained therein and that is a problem. There is more than one way to tax people and that is arbitralily increasing their costs for the same purpose. So once again the sleeping public has had the wool pulled over their eyes once again and the middle class pay the price.
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There is no reality where resisting change and progress will keep you living the quality of life you remember having when the world is changing that supported that reality at that time. It's not a stance that sustains anything, it just results in decline, because everyone else is moving on. And if the US is not leading, whatever wealth generated from being on top is going to go to another country. We can't be conservative with technological progress unless we want to switch places with the kind of life you read about in developing countries.
We have a wealth gap issue in the US that is contributing more to the middle class being screwed than any epa policy. Blaming the epa because the middle class is being priced out of what it means to be middle class is silly. The richest 1% in the US gained 6.5 trillion (gained) last year. That's an increase in their wealth that could pay every single citizen in this country like 20k usd. Would you be doing significantly better with an extra 20k post-tax income? But lets attack a policy that is trying to get rid of parasitic costs to the welfare of the public instead of what is actually causing the source of why you feel poorer now than you used to be.
The only wool being put over the eyes of the middle class is that these pro-social efforts that are dragging corporations that only care about short term profit into practices that benefit the public in the long term are what's wrong and not the ever widening disparity between the ultra rich and everyone else.