Re: This is what scares me more than anything

"Karl Swenson" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.music.dadl.ot
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> To me it's not just the issue of "we need to keep transportation tax 
> revenue steady/growing". It's coming up with such an inefficient and 
> difficult way of doing so that does not encourage the right behavior.
>
> ***I think I object to this being phrased as good and bad behavior.


If govt is going to encourage behavior (and it is in everything it does),
I'd rather it be good.

**and that gives you the right to judge someone else's behavior as good or
bad?


> If I
> have a car that only gets 15 mpg that is my business and I have to pay 
> the consequence in higher fuel prices.


Yes. I just don't see why govt should subsidize those that don't care to get
a more efficient vehicle.

And remember, this isn't just a matter of personal preference. Our
dependence on foreign oil exacts a high price.

***which has nothing to do with hybrids.  That has everything to do with
energy independence, something the administration opposes.


> I personally bought a car that gets 38 hwy, but I did so for selfish 
> reasons, not because I wanted to be rewarded for good behavior.
>

That right there seems a little contradictory. You *are* being rewarded for
good behavior. Maybe you just don't like that phrase.

**it is not a behavior of any kind.  Have we so watered good and bad?
 


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