"Brent" > wrote in message
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> On 2009-08-09, dwight > wrote:
>
>> Second, it contains flat-out false information to make a rather nice
>> program
>> sound like a disaster.
>
> It is a disaster. It's theft from one group of people (those who aren't
> buying cars the federal government approves of or already own cars the
> federal government approves of) to people who are buying new cars that
> the federal government approves and are getting rid of cars the federal
> government doesn't approve of.
>
> The government doesn't have money of it's own. It either A) takes it
> from people directly by taxation. This means the people who pay the
> taxes don't have the money to spend on things. Instead it went to
> automobiles. B) It prints money. This steals it from people who have
> savings in USD by devaluing the dollars they hold. C) It borrows the
> money, which depletes money to make loans for other purposes. It also
> has to be paid back, with interest, by the means of A and/or B.
>
> Meanwhile as older vehicles are destroyed this raises the prices of the
> remaining used cars. This hurts the people who cannot afford to buy new
> vehicles. Also it's resource wasteful. A lot of resources went into
> building those vehicles and now they are being destroyed for the sake of
> destroying them.

If you don't like paying taxes, just say so. If you don't approve of certain
government programs, just say so. What bugs me is the dissemination of
garbage as fact.

Taxes are always and have always been about taking money from one group and
giving it to another. There is nothing new there.

And, finally, no one is forcing anyone to trade in a car. This is not a
mandatory program.

dwight