WSJ Column: Higher gas taxes better strategy than CAFE to save GM

 

very interesting approach and its much more sensible since there is a need for trucks.

I'm just glad diesel prices have already dropped to about the price of regular gas where I am. That fact that is was at one time $0.80/gallon more than premium was rediculous...its like was Busch beer is to Budweiser. The left over crap (not that Bud is good ).

 

What a load of crap. They want to tax CONSUMERS to continue to pay for a corporate mess? The only part I agreed with was lowering the tax on diesel fuel, the rest of this article has a lot of bad ideas

 

well,lets face it,the government is out of money now,borrowing left and right.any tax they can levy on us now is going to look good to them along with more redlight cameras,speeding fines,etc.

 

agreed.

 

I thought Obama said no new taxes. He listed like 3 different taxes and then said any tax.

 

^ Obama made lots of campaign promises that he hasn't and won't keep....but if people really thought he was going to anyway, they were fooled from the start.


Yes please lets put in a system that allows them to KEEP producing the same bullshit they have and not change their focus.....I mean it isn't THEIR fault that they are in financial trouble

 

I'm just glad I wasn't an idiot that believed every unbelievable lie (goal/promise) he gave to get his non-experienced ass elected...yeah, Peter Pan for president



I will agree that raising the taxes isn't quite fair but lowering the diesel tax will help people hop to a more fuel efficient setup.

 

ego boy said it which meant it had to be true . after all it was in the media . not . and damn near impossible not to raise or create new taxes

the rich can't pay for everything in this country . the poor may think that but its just not true .

ego boy considers incomes of individuals of over $200k a year and $250k a year for married to be the rich in this country. i don't know where exactly he gets his lesson of how that makes one rich because in reality its not when you take away all the taxes and other financial burdens that come along with making that much income

wait ... didn't ego boy grow up poor? well there is your answer. guess he is getting his new lesson as well.

inflation in a steady and growing market helps us advance our economy and our lives. when you jump ahead and blow bubbles until they pop you get where we are today.

 

that is the dumbest, most terrifying idea to save GM I've heard as of yet. Sure, when you fuck with the fuel prices people are going to buy differently when they go to buy a new car. The problem is, people aren't buying new cars. Which is what has caused GM"s problem in the first place. I won't be buying a new car for a while. I'll be buying an early 2000 bmw for a family car. My next car for me will be either a 300zx or might even go the sport bike route. To replace the bmw in a year or two, I'll be shopping around for a used charger srt8. Assuming i can afford the monthly gas expense. A year ago, I would have considered buying a new car. Probably that new VW desiel that gets something like 50 mpg. but hey, that still doens't help GM. Maybe if GM didn't make so many crappy cars and try to make so many different kinds of crappy cars, they wouldn't be in such a mess. But someone would have had to notice that years ago when the company started to fall apart. Now you want tax payers to go in and fix a problem corporate tycoos created. Its bad enough we have had to spend tax payer dollars on failed bail outs, If this tax goes through, and it doesn't work, what next? a tax on people driving a car that is older than 3 years. That'll force people to buy new cars, right? But that still doesn't put enough money in people's pockets to buy a new car, so everyone driving a 10, 15, hell, 20 year old car out of neccessity will either pay the tax, or not drive. With the way things are, and the way things are going, I would give up driving before paying a tax just because I can't afford a new car. So that tax won't fix the problem, but since the governement owns GM and will probably own all of it at that point, what do they do next, put a tax on anyone buying a car that isn't GM. We'll double the tax on cars that are imported and/or made out of the country. So Ford will be in trouble considering most of their cars are made outside the US. or at least a considerable amount of the parts are. But hey, the government owns GM, why not buy controling power of ford too. That'll give the people more choice in the cars we are forcing them to buy.....
sounds kinda like the way they do it in Japan... and we all know how that Democrocy works...