Re:Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society”
by hnav on Monday August 07, 2023 @02:56PM
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I think you want both to be included, but yeah something like SURCHARGE = ((WEIGHT-2500)/1000 + (VALUE-30000)/10000) * CONSTANT. Maybe even make it exponential to discourage upper-middle class conspicuous consumption (think G-classes) since it'll cost them $20k to register a $200k, 5klb vehicle. In the US we actually give (federal) fuckin tax breaks (sec 179) on beastly luxo-trucks to SMBs, that needs to be offset by massive reg increases too.
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Re:Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society”
by mynameisash on Monday August 07, 2023 @03:02PM
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I would think the tax on the value of the car would be better handled by taxing gas much more heavily. It seems to me that all of the very expensive cars have terrible mileage. If we had a good carbon tax, it should do a good job of taxing what we really want to be taxed, which happens to coincide well with luxury vehicles.
Re:Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society”
by kansface on Monday August 07, 2023 @03:22PM
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Electric cars are heavy, expensive, and use no gas. This tax would be quickly regressive.
Re:Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society”
by jenadine on Monday August 07, 2023 @04:25PM
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The answer to that is to compensate it with other progressive tax credit, or redistribute the benefit of the tax in other means.
Re:Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society”
by mynameisash on Monday August 07, 2023 @05:39PM
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As has been discussed ad nauseum elsewhere, electric vehicles aren't appreciably more heavy than other commuter vehicles, especially given that damage to roads is non-linear. And as for them not using gas -- that's why taxing carbon would handle it. If electricity comes from natural gas or coal, then you pay tax on the electricity accordingly.