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Sure. We want to become more energy-efficient. Every car that gets less than 20 mpg needs to be off the road pronto, we decide.

So, you either buy a new car or pay $1,000 to use your old one.

 

If Republicans in power ever want to do something shitty, they do it regardless of how "nice" the Democrats that came before them were.

 

Sounds like a job creating law for door-to-door Bible salesmen.

 

IANAL, but wasn't it also the case that the only reason the penalty/tax passed constitutional muster was because it was so modest? Meaning, if there had been the political will to pass a penalty with teeth (i.e., both substantial enough and collectible enough to work), it likely wouldn't have got past the Supremes because of other considerations?

 

Many (most) don't.

1. Mortgage interest is only a usable tax deduction if it --- combined with property taxes and other deductions --- exceeds the amount of your standard deduction. That's almost $13,000 for married people. Not a ton of people are paying $10,000+ in interest for very long (in my case it was only 2 years; a single person might).

2. Homeowners --- with a mortgage or without --- are paying property taxes. Renters are not. Yet they get to use the same schools and roads and parks. So much for your "lower tax rate" argument.

 

Right on 1. Dead wrong on 2.

 

Funny. My state says "Buy car insurance or else", both for my protection and so that the citizens around me won't be stuck with a hospital/car repair bill they can't afford to pay, and no one has a real problem with it. "Buy health insurance for your own protection and so that you won't stick everyone around you with bills you can't afford to pay" isn't so different, except perhaps that young people think they will never need medical care... which isn't so different from how they view car insurance, absent the laws requiring it.

 

Neutral, you don't have to have a car (and thus car insurance) is the difference here.

 

It is extremely different and it is sad how many people fall back on this argument, showing that they don't understand the issues involved at all.

Your state does not require you to purchase car insurance. Your state requires you to purchase car insurance if you choose to operate a motor vehicle on a state-owned road

 

Is it worse than the "renters don't pay property taxes" trope?

 

You're right, I have the choice to find a job I can walk to, live close enough to a grocery to walk back and forth to for food, etc. Public transit here is so poor as to be near non-existent. In a legal/logical sense you are correct, it is an imperfect anology, but in any practical sense damn few of us live without the routine daily use of an automobile.

Some of you may not have one, but I suspect that percentage is rather small.

 

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