A good argument for taxing gas instead of income  Follow on
Twitter on January 16, 2013 at 1:52 PM, updated January 17, 2013
at 10:43 AM gas pumps   I always find it amazing that many of
the same people who oppose funding government through
progressive taxes such as the income tax also claim to oppose
regressive taxes such as the gas tax and other taxes on
consumption.  Pick your poison.  It's one or the other.  There
was a good piece on this the other day froom Adam Davidson in
the New York Times.  Davidson takes that idea and has some fun
with it, imagining all sorts of behaviors he'd like to see
taxed. He leaves out the use of leaf blowers, but his list is
good reading anyway:  In my Brooklyn neighborhood, I notice that
some neighbors have well-tended gardens that make my walk to the
subway more enjoyable. Others, less so. (Taken as a whole, they
also play a subtle but significant role in determining property
values.) Can’t we tax the sloppy and subsidize the beautifiers?
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