Browning / CHINA --- RANT ! !

["yote"]

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Spendy, but it is the best. I am wearing my fathers Filson hunting
coat that he bought in 1951. The stuff wears like iron. You will be
giving this stuff to your grandchildren. No bull!!!

[fabsroman]

Skeeter,

The federal government is giving a $2,000 tax credit to people that buy hybrid vehicles in 2006. If you are in the 25% tax bracket, that equates to an $8,000 deduction against income. If I were in the market for a new vehicle, hybrid would be the way I would go. I bought the F-350 because of the tax break I got with it. In essence, I saved $19,000 in taxes by buying that truck.

With all that said, I will agree that the people using the road need to pay for the road. The more you drive, the more taxes you should pay that go directly toward maintaining the road. It is like the clay range I shoot at. It is gov't owned, but I still pay to shoot. The reason being that the shooter should fund the range, and not taxpayers that are not interested in shooting. Same goes for the roads. The people using them should pay for them. That is why there is red/farm diesel, the one that is not taxed, and regular diesel that is to be used on the road and which is taxed.

Yes, alternative fuel vehicles such as propane, methane, and ethanol will probably have some type of tax put on them. But a good way to get people to use these vehicles, and thereby clean up the environment because their only emission is water, is to keep the cost of the fuel somewhat low. The reason people are motivated to buy hybrids is because they will use less gas, thereby paying less of the road tax. The government should keep the taxes high on gasoline and keep them low on alternative fuels until the majority of people are using alternative fuels. Government uses the tax system to influence people's behavior and the economy.