XPost: alt.home.repair, rec.autos.tech   
   From: am@yellowjersey.org   
      
   On 6/30/2013 7:38 PM, Kurt Ullman wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   >   Geoff Welsh  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Dean Hoffman > wrote:   
   >>> On 6/30/13 1:06 PM, . wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>> The U.S. government keeps increasing the fuel mileage standards, for   
   >>>>> example.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> As they should.   
   >>>   
   >>> Why?   
   >>   
   >> To increase the tax revenue from cars that can't meet higher standards.   
   >> I would prefer taxing people for having children instead, but that's not   
   >> the issue.   
   >   
   > So, basically you want a tax system based on punishment for things you   
   > don/t like.   
   >   
      
   Theory and principle aside, out here in the real world those   
   are the all and only taxes we suffer. Down here at the   
   bottom of the pile, I'm always someone's enemy and therefore   
   punished accordingly.   
      
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