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rice_classic · 12-13-2015, 03:44 PM

Sounds good to me.

Just brainstorming:
VAT on initial purchase, registration and renewal based on vehicle value and weight. The owner of the F350 will pay a premium but so will the owner of the Tesla Model S. The low-income person driving a 1992 civic will pay much less (light + cheap), as will motorcyclists. Interesting.

I see the bigger picture isn't something we can solve locally or simply through taxes, a big problem is the number of semi-trucks on our roads. There's just WAY too damn many and the solution to that is rail, way more rail. It's the superior solution to transporting goods but then national politics comes into play: anytime you make a 'system' more efficient, you create redundancies and in this case those redundancies are jobs, truck driving jobs and no politician wants to be "job killer".

But on a local level, maybe we should stop voting for these corrupt folks in Olympia but so long as King County gets to dictate the political landscape for the rest of the state I don't see thing improving from a government efficiency standpoint.

12-13-2015, 03:44 PM	#22
rice_classic Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2012 Drives: Nevermorange FRS Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 4,174 Thanks: 757 Thanked 4,208 Times in 1,808 Posts Mentioned: 78 Post(s) Tagged: 1 Thread(s)	Sounds good to me. Just brainstorming: VAT on initial purchase, registration and renewal based on vehicle value and weight. The owner of the F350 will pay a premium but so will the owner of the Tesla Model S. The low-income person driving a 1992 civic will pay much less (light + cheap), as will motorcyclists. Interesting. I see the bigger picture isn't something we can solve locally or simply through taxes, a big problem is the number of semi-trucks on our roads. There's just WAY too damn many and the solution to that is rail, way more rail. It's the superior solution to transporting goods but then national politics comes into play: anytime you make a 'system' more efficient, you create redundancies and in this case those redundancies are jobs, truck driving jobs and no politician wants to be "job killer". But on a local level, maybe we should stop voting for these corrupt folks in Olympia but so long as King County gets to dictate the political landscape for the rest of the state I don't see thing improving from a government efficiency standpoint. __________________ SCCA T4 - FRS