We obviously have too many large vehicles being driven in the suburbs of Australia, too, and they drive me nuts when they can't do a tight turn in a shopping centre car park because of their turning circle.
The taxation ought to be incorporated into basic Georgist principles of everyone needing to justify their usage of land. Most of our big roads don't justify the road usage and certainly these big vehicles would leave the owner paying through the nose if they tried to drive their hummers in peak hours.
Also our hydro-carbon resources are CAPITAL GOODS. We are drawing down our capital stock when we export coal or use fuel with excessive flagrancy. This is probably already incorporated to some extent into our excise taxes. But the hummer is very much a product of insufficiently nuanced taxation. So I can give qualified support to Steve's thinking here.
But be careful here. Ken Livingstones original recipe was a disaster. Although I believe they may have nuanced the charge a little over time. Still not enough if my reading of Wikipedia is close.
If you believe on a nationalist basis that drawing down our capital stock is a serious matter, or even on an internationalist basis, there is plenty of good reasons to take a patient approach to some of your ecological goals without pushing junk science Steve. Why do you do it? You know you don't understand the subject. It matters why you are doing things because we are just about to waste a shit-tonne of money on exporting hydrogen which is an insane scheme right from the getgo.
Unless you are sayanim I just cannot understand why you put yourself out of the reach of human reason. Many of your prejudices can be justified on scrupulously rational grounds. This antipathy to huge consumer vehicles is one of them.
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The taxation ought to be incorporated into basic Georgist principles of everyone needing to justify their usage of land. Most of our big roads don't justify the road usage and certainly these big vehicles would leave the owner paying through the nose if they tried to drive their hummers in peak hours.
Also our hydro-carbon resources are CAPITAL GOODS. We are drawing down our capital stock when we export coal or use fuel with excessive flagrancy. This is probably already incorporated to some extent into our excise taxes. But the hummer is very much a product of insufficiently nuanced taxation. So I can give qualified support to Steve's thinking here.
But be careful here. Ken Livingstones original recipe was a disaster. Although I believe they may have nuanced the charge a little over time. Still not enough if my reading of Wikipedia is close.
If you believe on a nationalist basis that drawing down our capital stock is a serious matter, or even on an internationalist basis, there is plenty of good reasons to take a patient approach to some of your ecological goals without pushing junk science Steve. Why do you do it? You know you don't understand the subject. It matters why you are doing things because we are just about to waste a shit-tonne of money on exporting hydrogen which is an insane scheme right from the getgo.
Unless you are sayanim I just cannot understand why you put yourself out of the reach of human reason. Many of your prejudices can be justified on scrupulously rational grounds. This antipathy to huge consumer vehicles is one of them.
Completely off topic. Here is someone to help Philistines like me and you understand poetry a bit better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Types_of_Ambiguity
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