Why are we subsidizing the affluent? The $7500 credits should have been income capped for purchasing *more* efficient vehicles.
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Agreed. Electric cars are exponentially more efficient. And the affluent generally understand it’s good to spend less money.
aug 18, 2025, 3:23 pm • 1 0 • view
The affluent actually have a garage or at minimum a driveway to plug in their cars. A poor person can’t run a plug a block away to the on street parking they found or a poor rural person has 60 amp panel on their small house or trailer that has no room for another 30 amp breaker.
aug 18, 2025, 3:49 pm • 0 0 • view
There a host of reasons why electric cars work better for the affluent (I bet many also own a secondary gas vehicle) which begs the question: why did Democrats think this was good policy?
aug 18, 2025, 3:58 pm • 0 0 • view
To get early adopters to purchase these vehicles by incentivizing it. It’s statist style policy position to change behavior
aug 18, 2025, 4:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes, but wouldn't they have bought their luxury status symbol cars anyway? Its been worked out by economista that this is largely the case.
aug 18, 2025, 4:22 pm • 1 0 • view