Re: A War Tax on SUVs?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brent P) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matt wrote:
> 
> > Should a name brand cereal be taxed higher than a generic brand cereal?  The
> > only reason their are luxury taxes is because there are more people that
> > can't afford the luxury items that can.  That doesn't make it right.  The
> > rich are just easy targets for taxation.
> 
> Back when the luxury tax was inacted the congress criters who moan about
> the rich not paying enough taxes decided that only the rich bought boats.
> So they put a big luxury tax on boats. The boating industry in the USA
> just about collasped. Lots of people lost their jobs, businesses went 
> under, etc because boat sales dropped through the floor. The reason? 
> The bulk of boats were not bought by the "rich" they were bought by 
> regular folk who saved their pennies to have a boat. When the tax hit,
> they are bumped right out of the market. A boat simply wasn't affordable 
> for them anymore.  So much for class warfare.

Good for the "poor" boat owners, bad for the environment... :( 

Come to think of it, in light of all the pollution and waste of oil
created by the motorboats, they should be heavily taxed too. Ah, the
sailboats should be subsidized with that money.

Hey why not a POLLUTION TAX across the board?