Maybe you don't get the concept. Efficient cars would get a significant credit. Buy a Dodge Neon, that gets over 30 MPG, and you might get a $8K tax credit... very compelling on a $17K car. Does that lead to a replacement cycle from inefficient cars to efficient cars? You bet it does.
No I think I get the concept, it isn't that complex. The efficient cars get turned over faster, but the inefficient cars get kept in operation longer because no one can get a similar new vehicle without getting hit with a large tax bill.
How would you deal with vehicles that have good passenger miles per gallon while having poor gas mileage. For example the 15 seat vans that my parents (who had 11 children) owned for years?
Also I think there are a lot of negative results from interfering with the market prices of goods by giving them a close to 50% subsidy or tax. Of course most new cars would probably get a smaller subsidy or tax than that (at least as a %) but they would still be hefty.
I hope you decide to contribute, and think in terms of results for Citizens, not ideology.
I have been thinking in terms of results for citizens but our different ideologies cause us to view different things as being beneficial to citizens (or you could say we view different things as being beneficial, therefore we have different ideologies). A large part of what an ideology is, is a set of beliefs about what is good for people and society. Even more radical ideologies, like Communism, Facism, and Islamic Fundamentalism, often justify (and sometimes or even often there adherents truly believe) that they are working for the good of people.
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