Congress:
Tax incentives for a 10 mpg Hummer, but not a Toyota Prius?
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Congress
talks about hybrids, gives money to Hummers
Congress claims Americans demand and deserve cheap gas and
security from foreign oil dependence. Thus, US automakers
are to create more fuel efficient automobiles so that
consumers can both pay less for fuel and
help end foreign oil dependence.
Contradiction? No, just politics as usual in Congress.
Likewise, as Congressional staffers recently drove hybrid
cars to deliver energy legislation around Washington,
D.C., Congress continued, and continues, to provide small
business tax incentives for 10 mpg SUVs, while denying
similar tax incentives for hybrids, such as the Toyota
Prius.
And that message means what exactly?
How can there be unlimited small business tax deductions
for buying gas-guzzlers, but not for buying hybrid cars,
at the same time that Congress it telling US automakers to
build more fuel efficient vehicles?
And, we give these people life long benefits the rest of
us would die to have - are dying to have? The rest of the
world is right, we really are stupid.
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