Re: This is what scares me more than anything

Heh, maybe, but is it really preachy to point out facts? I didn't even say Karl's sense of fairness was "wrong" (though it's easy enough to guess my view), only that it seems very strange to me.



On May 6, 2011, at 2:42 PM, Mike Findlay <[email protected]> wrote:

> Now *that* was preachy.  ;-p. 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On May 6, 2011, at 2:36 PM, Paul Christian Glenn <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Such a strange sense of fairness you possess. Are you really so bloodyminded that you cant bear the thought of anyone else driving on *your* roads? Even when that other person is spending money to help make the air you breathe cleaner, the gas you buy less expensive, and your dependence on hostile nations less severe? So strange to me.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On May 6, 2011, at 1:34 PM, "Karl Swenson" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> " If we need to raise transportation revenue, just raise gas tax rather than
>>> try to implement mile tax."
>>> 
>>> Once again, punishing bad behavior?
>>> 
>>> That, is all I am suggesting is "preachy.  Owning a gasoline car is not bad
>>> behavior.
>>> 
>>> Bottom line, I already pay a consumption tax on my gas.  I accept that.
>>> But, why should my gas taxes make the roads safer for the electric vehicle
>>> who uses the same roads while he is also getting an annual tax incentive?
>>> 
>>> Sorry, no.
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
>>> Behalf Of Bruce Geerdes
>>> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 10:34 AM
>>> To: DADL (off topic)
>>> Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] This is what scares me more than anything
>>> 
>>> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Mike Findlay
>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Even if I disagree with his, (to me), cavalier attitude about more 
>>>> govt spending.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Oh now, I was only being cavalier about it if my conditions were met:
>>> 
>>> 1. All transportation taxes are being used to maintain infrastructure 2.
>>> There is not enough revenue from said taxes to maintain infrastructure
>>> 
>>> There is plenty of wiggle room in there to argue there *is* enough revenue,
>>> it's just being used inefficiently. ;)
>>> 
>>> My main points (lost in all the preachiness evidently) were:
>>> 
>>> (a) I want transportation to pay for transportation. I don't want govt to
>>> subsidize transportation from other areas, and I don't want transportation
>>> to subsidize other areas.
>>> 
>>> (b) If we need to raise transportation revenue, just raise gas tax rather
>>> than try to implement mile tax.
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