• KillingTimeItself
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    13 months ago

    Absolutely. But it will definitely help, and long term solutions are important solutions.

    yeah obviously. I think it’s important to engage in both long term, and short term solutions however.

    Also absolutely, though a straight weigh based tax may not be a great idea, as EVs are significantly heavier. So without taking that into account, it would largely be a tax on EVs. Given the current climate situation, that’s the wrong move.

    i mean, EV’s are just heavier, which means they’re going to put more wear on the road. Regardless a smaller EV should still be relatively comparable to a moderately larger ICE vehicle. And we also expect EV batteries to get lighter over time, especially if you include solidstate battery tech.

    Although maybe EVs should get a tax credit in this regard, since they’re yknow, EVs.

    • @Olgratin_Magmatoe
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      13 months ago

      i mean, EV’s are just heavier, which means they’re going to put more wear on the road. Regardless a smaller EV should still be relatively comparable to a moderately larger ICE vehicle. And we also expect EV batteries to get lighter over time, especially if you include solidstate battery tech.

      Agreed.

      Although maybe EVs should get a tax credit in this regard, since they’re yknow, EVs.

      Personally, I’m against tax credits on a conceptual basis. They complicate the tax code. Taxes should be simple, quick, and easy. Tacking on extra tax credits just makes an already horrendous system worse. Either give a citizen a check automatically, directly subsidize individual sales.

      • KillingTimeItself
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        13 months ago

        yeah, im not a huge fan of how complicated it is either, but at the end of the day unless we do a complete ground up overhaul of the tax system which i am for, not much is going to happen.