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Old 05-19-2009, 06:32 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by mcsluggo View Post
the implication of your cut and paste would seem to be that it would be much more efficient to raise fuel taxes to affect consumption decisions.

Are you in favor of that?

(personally, I AM much more in favor of taxing the behavior that you want to influence, rather than imposing arbirary caps and targets)
Yes...If you were going to do it, that would be the most straightforward method, without the guvment penalizing a specific industry.
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