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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Neeka who wrote (242398)	3/26/2002 5:44:00 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (2) of 769670

There seems to only be two ways to keep the numbers of large SUVs down and that is to limit or ban their production or put a surtax on them. They are high profit items right now. It might even be possible for car companies to lower the prices a little to ease the effect of an excise tax. People want these vehicles for various reasons, some practical, some not. If mpg were the factor in taxes would we tax based on the upper potential or the lower. IOW, would we consider the higher gross ability to carry passengers and cargo of an SUV or simply declare ownership defacto wasteful. Gas taxes like tobacco taxes are "sin" taxes to many. Here in CA we have had to force the government through an amendment initiative to use gasoline taxes for their intended purpose, roads. Previously they were general funded and ended up who knows where for who knows what purpose. This showed up the fact that government and its constituents are not always on the same page. The only groups to oppose this were teacher's unions and health care advocates who were used to stealing from it.

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