17th June 2003, 8:02 PM
And this is the first I got involved in in a long time. My point is that the government is indeed punishing those who buy what the government is deciding is a luxery. Is a car a luxery? Now I certainly think so, but most people don't. Taxing someone beyond sales tax for a car specifically would be viewed as terrible. Some people eat what you deem as "snacks" instead of other foods. What's the next step, really? Maybe, oh right, burgers get taxed. Then what? Meat itself gets taxed, as a "luxery" alternative to sea weed and kelp!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)