[Vwdiesel] per mile costs

[LBaird119 at aol.com]

Wow.  That's remarkable.  Increase taxes on the more efficient vehicles.

Andrew


  Remarkably or typical?  Think about it.  Have your house look like a dump,
 pay less taxes than if you fix it up and make it look good, buy a newer, 
less poluting car and pay much more tax than if you drive an old clunker.  
Government is full of similar examples where the better choice is penalized.  

  Dad had mentioned how they couldn't buy a new, orchard size crawler.  
There's a 100% duty on all imported tractors to encourage buying the 
American made models.  No American made orchard size crawlers exist.

Dana mentioned...
Regressive taxes, like the $30 per vehicle assessment that replaces basing 
the tax on a percentage of vehicle cost, favor wealthier citizens.  I don't 
consider them to be fair but am fully aware there are opposing views.

  Point in case.  Dad was offered the West coast MB reps demonstrator car. 
It was in his opinion the BEST 300D turbo he'd ever driven.  Dad didn't even 
ask the price because by the time the license fees had gone down to the 
lowest rate, he'd have paid at least half the price in just license fees!   
Dad's
in no way wealthy but could afford something like that once or twice in his 
lifetime.  License fees are a "Use fee" or road tax.  A $60k car doesn't 
use or damage the road more than a $20k car.  By the definition of the 
tax itself, sliding scale makes it unfair.  Not only the rich buy an 
expensive 
car.  Even if you got a good deal and DIDN'T pay a lot, the fees would 
penalize 
you the same as if you had.  The loss of revenue is much less than they 
implied sinec ONLY services were cut in retalation to the $30 tab iniative so 

that "we" would suffer the brunt of our insubordination.  ;-)
     Loren