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Originally Posted by toesuf94
Keedy:
I will handle your question for you. Let's say the government puts this into effect where people can sell off their old cars and have them crushed in return for a $4000 voucher. After all, it's just an old car that doesn't get very good mileage anyway...so you are doing your part to HELP clean up the environment. Soon, they get this program going, then they go for more. Maybe limit the amount of miles per year you can drive cars after a certain year to a level that owning one is not worth it or any fun. Then they go for a stricter emissions standard on your older cars, where you have to install polution control devices on your classic car in order to drive it at all. Then they will make it illegal to store your classic car outside or your project car cannot be visible from anywhere outside your house (laugh - it is happening and people are loosing cars to these rules already.) How does all of this effect you? Money, your hobby - all can be gone pretty quickly in the name of 'cleaner air'...while they all fly home in private jets and helicopters with Black Suburban's escorting them.
This type of legislation is the type that snowballs into further grabs that take away from your lifestyle and the hobby. Junkyards and personal collections are disappearing every year to legislation and government intervention. This only gets worse.
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I agree, and i have heard about the slippery slope many times before... But generally, for a slope to be so slippery, it needs to create precedent. That's why i feel no uproar here... there's no precedent set. All that would be said of people using this law is that they like don't like their old car, and they do like their new car. The next law could be the next fight... but i really don't see dangerous precedent. Uncomfortable spending, quite possibly.. but precedent, not at all.