<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Preston Boyington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:preston.lists@gmail.com">preston.lists@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Michael Potter wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">> The government should just tax gas such that people will make better<br>
> choices for which cars they buy and which cars they drive.<br>
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</div>heh, 'they should force <thing i dislike> out of business/tax it to<br>
pieces! that will show them!', but when it's something that near to<br>
your heart all you hear is 'they are taking away my freedom! do you see<br>
how invasive they are!'<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>It's more of a "tax things that cause problems to both fund the cleanups and discourage the use of the problem thing".<br><br>It's worked well on the discourage part for tobacco but the cleanup aspect is, as per usualy, staffed by mental midgets and thus the funds go elsewhere.<br>
<br><br>That's why a gas tax to fund development of alternate transportation methods actually makes sense. <br><br>Too bad we can't tax stupid.<br><br><br>Oh. Lottery. forgot.<br></div></div><br>-- <br>-- <br>James P. Kinney III<br>
Actively in pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness <br>Doing pretty well on all 3 pursuits <br><br> Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.<br>
Dan Barker, "Losing Faith in Faith", 1992 <br><br>