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Re:The Fake Factory That Pumped Out Real Money by wbl on Sunday July 17, 2016 @05:09PM (#12111837)
The gas tax was set to charge for road wear, not carbon externialities
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Re:The Fake Factory That Pumped Out Real Money by jacquesm on Monday July 18, 2016 @05:11AM (#12113959)
And VAT in Europe was only created to rebuild after the war.

Tax repeals are very rare, once they're worked into the budget they are there to stay and usually will expand to pay for other things besides the reason they were originally created.

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