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Politics : The Citizens Manifesto
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To: TimF who wrote (344)8/3/2005 10:45:44 AM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (2) of 492
 
The current "energy" bill is the poster child for our dysfunctional government. It does little or nothing to address the problem and it costs the taxpayer $Billions which mostly go to the bottom lines of special interest companies.

re: Its far from a slam dunk. In fact its almost impossible that anything like this will take effect in the near future, beyond the near future I suppose anything can happen, but I still think its not likely that something like your plan will become law in the next 20 years in the US.

I agree. Energy bills come along about every 5-10 years. If the proposal in the thread header had been adoped instead of the current bill, it would have actually had a very positive effect and it would have been deficit neutral.

The question isn't always "if" there should be regulation and tax manipulation, the question sometimes is "what" manipulation would work and do the least damage. IMHO the proposal in the header would have reduced our oil imports with no cost to the deficit. The current energy bill does little except raise our tax liability.

John

BTW, did you know that in some states the license plate fee used to be based on the horsepower of the vehicle? From there it's not a big stretch to imagine taxes based on fuel efficiency.
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