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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jbe who wrote (8997)	11/15/1998 12:05:00 PM
From: mrknowitall	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

Hi jbe! - Their (Euro) taxes aren't intended to reduce consumption. We (US) are geographically enormous, have more roads and a larger population than any European nation. Those countries have to apply very high gasoline taxes on a much smaller overall potential level of gasoline consumption in order to maintain the revenue flow. Their infrastructure and personal buying-power simply do not have enough room to accommodate large numbers of multi-car families. Nor do they have the space to park them in older, close-quartered cities. Given the publicly funded inter-city transportation systems, it is practicality that reduces the need for automobile ownership. It was, for a long time, another "penalize the rich" tax that met the needs of the proletariat-catering socialist factions of their governments. Now that standard of living growth has created a larger upper-middle class, the high gas taxes have become only slightly less popular, but the revenue from them has risen. (BTW - I think backuptrk is putting himself on, too!) Mr. K.