(November 27, 2018 at 9:59 am)Chad32 Wrote: A few years ago, gas was $4 a gallon. That didn't spur me to drive less, because I already didn't drive any more often than I needed to, and it didn't spur me to get a hybrid car because I can't afford one. I agree we need to get off fossil fuels, but I don't think giving more money to these companies via a higher gas tax is going to fix the problem.
The idea is that if taxes don't work to change society's behavior, regulations also work in combo to that. If we always did what giant corporations wanted without regulations cars would not have seat belts or air bags. We would still have the same pre Great Depression labor laws.
The only real argument anyone on the right can make, isn't "No taxes at all" or "no regulations at all" which is utopia bullshit, but the only real argument to be had is which taxes/regulations are effective and which ones are not. The problem with the GOP is they are merely bent on protecting the top.