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What freedom is lost?. You can do exactly as you are doing now and your
cost of doing so will be the same.

Mike
MU-2


"Wdtabor" wrote in message
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In article .net, "Mike
Rapoport" writes:


The economic costs of doing all this are tiny and probably there is
actually
a benefit. If there was simply a $4 tax on gasoline and an equivenenat
tax
credit (transferable) for income taxes, there would be no net economic
cost
and a huge incentive to use energy more efficiently. There would be
casualties in businesses catering to people traveling by auto but that is
about it.

How about the loss of the freedom to live where we choose, based on the
REAL
costs of that choice?

Some of us do value intangibles like freedom.

Don

--
Wm. Donald (Don) Tabor Jr., DDS
PP-ASEL
Chesapeake, VA - CPK, PVG

Mike Rapoport wrote:

What freedom is lost?. You can do exactly as you are doing now and your
cost of doing so will be the same.

Uh .... no it's not. If the cost of gas goes up to $4 a gallon, my cost of doing
what I usually do goes up significantly. If part of that $4 is taxes, and if I can
deduct those taxes on my income tax, then I will reduce my income taxes by about
30% of the amount I spent in fuel taxes, but that still won't be anywhere close
to being the same.

George Patterson
Love, n.: A form of temporary insanity afflicting the young. It is curable
either by marriage or by removal of the afflicted from the circumstances
under which he incurred the condition. It is sometimes fatal, but more
often to the physician than to the patient.

Uh...yes it is. Read the post, I said tax credits.

Mike
MU-2

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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Mike Rapoport wrote:

What freedom is lost?. You can do exactly as you are doing now and your
cost of doing so will be the same.

Uh .... no it's not. If the cost of gas goes up to $4 a gallon, my cost of
doing
what I usually do goes up significantly. If part of that $4 is taxes, and
if I can
deduct those taxes on my income tax, then I will reduce my income taxes by
about
30% of the amount I spent in fuel taxes, but that still won't be anywhere
close
to being the same.

George Patterson
Love, n.: A form of temporary insanity afflicting the young. It is
curable
either by marriage or by removal of the afflicted from the
circumstances
under which he incurred the condition. It is sometimes fatal, but
more
often to the physician than to the patient.

Mike Rapoport wrote:

Uh...yes it is.

If that's the case, there's no incentive to use less gas, though there's lots of
new reasons to use oil company credit cards to pay for it.

George Patterson
Love, n.: A form of temporary insanity afflicting the young. It is curable
either by marriage or by removal of the afflicted from the circumstances
under which he incurred the condition. It is sometimes fatal, but more
often to the physician than to the patient.