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Originally Posted by DevilsReject97
I'm sorry, but this just makes me laugh.
To start, increasing taxes while NOT increasing efficiency is a joke. People will always drive more if they can afford it, but if you are getting 40mpg as opposed to 15mpg, why wouldnt you?
Example: I need a truck to do my business, not because I want one, because I need it to haul heavy items. If we only get 8mpg, I'm screwed. The companies producing the trucks make zero effort to improve it. However, once the government started really pushing the issue, all of a sudden we now have trucks getting 20-23mpg in a full size truck.
I'm all for free market, but I also think taxes aren't the answer. The answer should be to try to balance the two. We all know that the car companies aren't making the best efforts to produce fuel efficient cars as they could have. Look at the diesel engine. You can buy countless cars in Europe and Asia that are getting 45+mpgs real world but you can't even buy them here in the USA.
Your just cutting your nose off to spite your face...
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I'm glad you're laughing because I'm not. I was simply stating that in my opinion, we're stuck with one of the two choices. Given the two choices I would go with higher taxes.
If I had my way, we would drill here for our own oil, the government would become smaller, people would buy American cars and other American products, our economy would improve which would would in turn generate greater tax revenue to be spent on reducing the deficit, buying back our treasuries from the Chinese and investing in our aging infrastructure. Yes I'm a dreamer.