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Jen27's comments
Posted Fri, Jan 30, 9:20 a.m.
User fees are absolutely the way to go, but taxes on miles traveled seem inordinately hard to design and implement and wouldn't accomplish any behavior modifications that existing taxes don't. But Stuka, if you tax people for using their cars, you have to give them an alternative, and you have ...
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Good grief, dn, what rock did you grow up under? In its quest for "quality products at a competitive cost," the free market has given us such wonders as Bhopal, Love Canal, the toxic sludge of Bellingham and Commencement bays, PCB-riddled fish in the Duwamish, and a Hood Canal ecosystem ...
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