On 8 May 2007 at 17:09, Max Battcher wrote: > Mauro Diotallevi wrote: > > That's why I'm also not a big fan of Dan Minette's plan to raise gasoline > > taxes by 50 cents per gallon every year for the next 10 years, unless there > > was some offset in place for the working poor. People below certain income > > levels can qualify for programs like food stamps -- maybe they can qualify > > for a card that they could swipe at the pump that would automatically > > eliminate some of the taxes. Then I might go for Dan's plan. Of course, a > > black market for such cards would immediately spring up, and it would be > > extremely difficult to police. Also, by letting some people not pay the > > taxes you end up offsetting some of the environmental benefit of the tax. > > That's certainly not a bad plan. The way to keep this from hurting the > poor is to make sure that most, if not all, of the taxes went directly > to regional mass transit efforts. > > I also think that this country would do well to start moving some of the > major interstate funds back into encouraging reliable interstate mass > transit passenger travel.
Well, that's the thing. It's far more viable in Europe than America. Most European cities have deacent public transport nets. (I'm thinking more Manchester than London, here). American cities? Not so much. AndrewC Dawn Falcon _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
