Victoria follows South Australia and imposes electric car road tax

Re:Victoria follows South Australia and imposes electric car... by mulmen on Saturday November 21, 2020 @05:48PM (#25173339)

That seems like an oversimplification. Rural states receive more in benefits than they pay in federal tax. Large families by necessity are going to favor rural areas and states. It is not clear to me how a large family is a net tax benefit, there are too many other factors to consider.

Having more people pay tax does not mean there is a net increase in tax collected.

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Re:Victoria follows South Australia and imposes electric car... by sampo on Saturday November 21, 2020 @06:57PM (#25173651)

> It is not clear to me how a large family is a net tax benefit

Some of the children from a large rural families will move to cities and make careers that pay lots of taxes. Cities almost always have lower birthrates than countryside.

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Re:Victoria follows South Australia and imposes electric car... by mulmen on Saturday November 21, 2020 @07:16PM (#25173736)

Yes, we need children. That's not a question. The question is if a single couple needs to produce so many children they drive a vehicle so massive is earns tax breaks.

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Re:Victoria follows South Australia and imposes electric car... by javagram on Sunday November 22, 2020 @11:46PM (#25183676)

In this context, I assume a "large family" is 3 or 4 children (a 5 seat sedan cannot physically, legally fit 4 children and two parents, and due to the size of modern carseats it can be dicey or impossible to fit 3 of them in compact or midsize sedans even for a 3-child family).

Even just maintaining replacement rate fertility requires an average of 2.1 children TFR, which means some families would need to have 3 or 4 children to get there since other families will have only 2 or 1 child.

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