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Monday, November 28, 2005
Madness
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce proposes taxing hybrid cars and other fuel-efficient vehicles. Meanwhile, the Bush administration refuses to use tax incentives to keep GM from transferring jobs from the United States to India. Madness!
2 comments:
Anonymous
said...
Joseph,
Please read Greg Mankiw's paper on the Politics of Outsourcing and note that the benefits outweigh the costs.
Here's an extract from that article on taxing Hybrid cars...."One is that owners of hybrids and other alternative fuel vehicles pay a vehicle fee, the argument being that drivers should bear their fair share to fill potholes and fix bridges, regardless of how much or what kind of fuel they use" I agree, drivers should pay their fair share but it should be based on vehicle weight because, you see, road damage is not the same for all vehicles; actually the only published study on the subject says that it is proportional to the fourth power of weight. So lets say (and why not) that a H2 weighs 2.6 times what a Civic weighs, then one would conclude that a H2 would cause about 45 times more damage. Seems fair to me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AASHTO_Road_Test
Oh by the way Joseph, you are doing a great job, yours is one of my most oft visited blogs. Thanks!
2 comments:
Joseph,
Please read Greg Mankiw's paper on the Politics of Outsourcing and note that the benefits outweigh the costs.
http://post.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/mankiw/papers/Outsourcing%20-%20Mankiw-Swagel%20for%20C-R%20conference%20Nov%2010%202005.pdf
Here's an extract from that article on taxing Hybrid cars...."One is that owners of hybrids and other alternative fuel vehicles pay a vehicle fee, the argument being that drivers should bear their fair share to fill potholes and fix bridges, regardless of how much or what kind of fuel they use"
I agree, drivers should pay their fair share but it should be based on vehicle weight because, you see, road damage is not the same for all vehicles; actually the only published study on the subject says that it is proportional to the fourth power of weight. So lets say (and why not) that a H2 weighs 2.6 times what a Civic weighs, then one would conclude that a H2 would cause about 45 times more damage. Seems fair to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AASHTO_Road_Test
Oh by the way Joseph, you are doing a great job, yours is one of my most oft visited blogs. Thanks!
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