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01-15-2009, 12:43 PM | #1 | |
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01-15-2009, 12:44 PM | #2 | |
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01-15-2009, 12:54 PM | #3 |
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For good or ill they're just copying the French. Sadly an Aveo here isn't really the nice step up a Clio there would be.
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01-15-2009, 12:57 PM | #4 |
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01-15-2009, 01:00 PM | #5 |
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change the Environmental Protection Agency to the Economic Protection Agency... the EPA is a major cause of american automaker hardship, and they keep those sweet european/japanese cars from coming over here!! I would buy a Ford Focus if it were AWD and turbo (like they have everywhere but America!!)
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01-15-2009, 02:29 PM | #6 |
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01-15-2009, 03:40 PM | #7 |
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01-15-2009, 07:08 PM | #8 | |
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01-15-2009, 08:05 PM | #9 |
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01-15-2009, 08:27 PM | #10 |
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focus rs 2.0, turbo, fwd, quaffe diff, my friends dad has one (he lives in england)
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01-15-2009, 09:00 PM | #11 |
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Buy a clunker for $100, trade it in on a Volt, get the $7500 PHEV tax credit and a $4500 clunker credit, get out the dealer's door for $28k on a $40k MSRP. A rotten old polluter gets taken off the streets and recycled into something less damaging. Local government gets higher vehicle excise tax, state government gets sales tax, federal government gets paid back on the automaker loans and gets income taxes from autoworkers that are still working... And local pollution is lowered.
Yah, sorry, not seeing the problem here. I mean, we can argue about the exact dollar figure that would be appropriate, but overall it's a "win" all the way around. That you can "trade in" a clunker for $3000 worth of transit passes, that's good to see too. If I still lived in a big city, a transit pass and a ZipCar (or similar) membership is really all the "personal mobility" services I'd need. |
01-16-2009, 06:10 PM | #12 |
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01-16-2009, 07:08 PM | #13 |
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not to mention all of the classic or soon to be classic cars that will go to the crusher if this passes
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01-16-2009, 07:19 PM | #14 |
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01-16-2009, 07:34 PM | #16 |
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We are just going to start printing money like it's newspaper. Oh well, as long as they say it's good, it's good. Hopefully one Peso won't be worth 10,000 U.S. dollars soon.........
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01-17-2009, 07:25 AM | #17 |
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Dear U.S. government,
This isn't your job. Please go back to providing basic services. Oh, and while you're at it, please review the U.S. Constitution. It seems you've forgotten the entire document. |
01-17-2009, 07:26 AM | #18 |
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^^^^^ Amen!
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01-17-2009, 08:09 AM | #19 |
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Forget that, I like my hooptie. It cost nothing in yearly taxes. Its cheap to operate cause I can work on it myself and lastly its paid off.
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01-17-2009, 07:25 PM | #20 |
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02-06-2009, 12:59 PM | #21 | |
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02-06-2009, 01:08 PM | #22 |
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Why is it that these days "stimulating the economy" has come to mean "take out more loans?"
The government deepens national debt in order to encourage individuals to get a new car and in-turn the majority of them take out a loan for that new car. So basically, the government is going further into debt with programs that encourage people to keep borrowing money that they won't be able to afford to pay back. Isn't it a mountain of debt that got us into this mess in the first place? I know, we might as well just keep trucking that dirt in to make the mountain bigger and bigger I know the government is trying to help and all, but I think they're making it worse... Good to see McConnell's stance though. There's that good 'ol saying "Money doesn't grow on trees" implying that money has to come from somewhere... You can't just magically "stimulate" an economy by manifesting some money out of nowhere, that money has to come from somewhere and be backed up by some sort of value. You can't pick an apple from an apple tree, photo copy it a bunch of times, and successully feed a nation with it. Same with money, so I'd like to know where our treasury keeps their magical and endlessly-fruitful money tree. Last edited by jhargis; 02-06-2009 at 01:20 PM. |
02-06-2009, 01:11 PM | #23 | |
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The Truth About Cash for Clunkers
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02-07-2009, 07:18 AM | #24 | |
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02-07-2009, 10:02 PM | #25 | |
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Also, doesn't the program of giving away junkers already exist by giving your car to a charity such as salvation army as a huge tax write-off? |
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