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To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (141301)10/1/2005 3:42:41 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 793838
 
An SUV surcharge is not as good as a fuel tax. Some SUVs do low mileage and are perhaps for carrying a wheelchair. Taxing the fuel is better because it's the fuel which is the problem, not the SUV. If worried about the poor, give tax cuts on income of the same amount collected as fuel tax.

Why punish people doing 2,000 or 5,000 km a year while those doing 80,000 km per year go on burning the fuel which is allegedly the problem?

Mqurice

PS: I just clicked upstream and see that compensating tax reductions were already suggested. Tax is also easier to collect on refinery output and supertanker input than on umpty million annual registrations of vehicles and inspections to ensure nobody is cheating.
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