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May 14th 2019, 11:41 AM | #31 |
Jan 2016 Portland 2012 Ninja 250, Tiger 800 |
I've had a house built, the vast majority was built "to code" if you think they do any more than that out of the goodness of their heart, you're naive. Now consider a house that is built before having a buyer, it'll be even worse without the buyer monitoring what's going on. All the transportation safety codes exist because of the government, not competition. Look at the 737 drama, even with massive regulation, Boeing still tried to cut corners on safety to make an extra buck. They got away with it for awhile too, but eventually it bit them on the ass hard. If there were no federal regulations, airplanes would be falling out of the sky from bad design, shoddy maintenance, and fatigued crews. You seriously think private corporations have your best interests at heart? Not a snowball's chance in hell. Edited by Ralgha on May 14th 2019 at 12:19 PM |
May 14th 2019, 11:47 AM | #32 |
Jan 2016 SeaTac |
You are crazy! Boeing is ONLY about safety, making a comfortable and happy workplace, and making sure the workers have a good wage. Really! No kidding! They care not for making a profit. It is all about the people and customers. Yup. I read it on the Googles! It MUST be true!
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May 14th 2019, 02:11 PM | #33 | |
Jan 2016 Seattle Ducati Diavel, Aprilia Scarabeo | Quote:
Whereas we are discussing whether the government, which claims to want to increase electric vehicle ownership yet desides to tax them more, is acting as an Orwellian propaganda machine, or a Kafkian bureaucracy nightmare. |
May 14th 2019, 02:52 PM | #34 |
Jan 2016 Portland 2012 Ninja 250, Tiger 800 |
Some people have been arguing that private companies will handle everything on their own better than the government, and that is false. That aside, the government is in something of a catch-22. There are many reasons that we need electric vehicles, yet if they take over, no more gas tax revenue to fund the infrastructure. Logically, the best solution, I think, would be a tax based on weight of the vehicle and miles driven, thus directly tying it to wear and tear on the infrastructure. Personally, I don't like the mileage aspect because it would either requirea transponder on every vehicle, which I don't want for privacy reasons, or extra work from each driver to track and report miles, which I don't want because I'm lazy. Finding the best solution is not easy. |
May 14th 2019, 03:58 PM | #35 | |
Jan 2016 Seattle Ducati Diavel, Aprilia Scarabeo | Quote:
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May 14th 2019, 04:02 PM | #36 |
Jan 2016 Seattle Ducati Diavel, Aprilia Scarabeo |
Do we at least agree that taxing electric vehicles annually is the WORST possible solution?
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May 14th 2019, 04:13 PM | #37 |
Jan 2016 Redmond, WA Versys 650, Monster 797 |
There's a third side to this coin that I haven't seen mentioned yet. It's in the public's interest to reduce the need for personal vehicle ownership overall, so any tax increase on them (ICE or electric) is a "good thing" regarding that specific goal. Oh, if only we had invested in trains instead of highways!
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May 14th 2019, 05:01 PM | #38 |
Jan 2016 Kirkland 2009 V-Star 1100 Custom |
May 14th 2019, 05:04 PM | #39 |
Jan 2016 Kirkland 2009 V-Star 1100 Custom |
May 14th 2019, 05:06 PM | #40 | |
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May 14th 2019, 05:41 PM | #41 |
Jun 2016 Poor Tortured 2019 Nada |
May 14th 2019, 08:13 PM | #42 |
Feb 2016 Seattle |
If this was a serious recommendation I think the problem with heavily taxing tires is that they are very transportable. Every American citizen near the border would just take a weekend trip North or South and outfit their car with fine Canadian or Mexican tires and then drive another 20k miles.
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May 14th 2019, 11:27 PM | #43 | |
Jan 2016 Seattle Ducati Diavel, Aprilia Scarabeo | Quote:
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May 14th 2019, 11:40 PM | #44 | |
Jan 2016 Seattle Ducati Diavel, Aprilia Scarabeo | Quote:
We've invested in trains. I am paying few hundred dollars tax for each vehicle each year, so they can keep planning it for 5 years, design for 4 more years, and then spent 10 more years building a 7-mile line of light rail, for the total cost of 2 billion dollars, with projected 2000 daily boardings. For this money, we could buy each Ballard resident an electric motorcycle, and have spare change to pay for everyone's ride on electric Uber anywhere they want. Your government, hard at work. I mean, I love trains and street cars, they are wonderful in Europe, but when we let idiots to take over the government because they say all the right and woke things, that's what we're getting. So if they'd took these two billion dollars and invested them into promoting, subsidizing, and de-taxing electric vehicles instead, we would have much, much bigger impact on slowing the global warming. |
May 15th 2019, 07:16 AM | #45 | |
Moderator Jan 2016 Northeast Olalla 07 Guzzi | Quote:
You'll take my untaxed tyres away from me when you pry my cold dead fingers from around them. |
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