Victoria follows South Australia and imposes electric car road tax

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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