Let’s get this Freepathon rolling, Folks!
So taxpayers are subsidizing your electric car purchase.
Progressives really like those coal-powered cars.
If these cars are a great idea and value, there would be no need for the transfer of money from productive innocent people to those who would like an electric vehicle.
I detest the government steeling money from us (taxpayers) to transfer to others who did not earn it, just because a few uniparty types like or favor some group.
This is what passes for the brightest in SillyConjob Valley.
Subsidies for Everybody and Everything GReen!!! Typical Proge$$ive.
They should expand it to include internal combustion cars, for the sake of inclusiveness, tolerance and fairness.
I love how the hated SUVs will be golden if they are electric.
Which means that people with fuel driven cars pay for the roads with fuel taxes and the EV’s get a break.
Let’s get this Freepathon rolling, Folks!
Tax cuts and tax credits are a good thing. Anything such as tax credits that help industry in the USA is probably good. Electric cars are more practical than you think. (Tesla is a huge employer around here by the way.) I hope Pres. Trump finds nothing noxious in this bill and signs it. Who cares who proposed it, if it is good for our economy.
So the middle class can subsidize the elite driving around in their Teslas.
“Dem to offer bill to expand electric vehicle tax credit”
What? To justify the tripling of electric taxes to offset your money trough loss on gas taxes?
Let’s see
Tesla owners bill the rest of for their bene’s of ownership.
7,500 tax credit(why isn’t there one for Ford reducing their CAFE?)
They don’t pay gas taxes to maintain the roads they drive on.
They get preferential rights to be in the HOV/Carpool lane and again, they pay no taxes to support the roads they drive on
Tesla is luxury car like Mercedes or BMW who’s owners do not enjoy the taxpayer bene’s or incentives to purchase.
In California, they are a burden on an already over burden electric system.
Where do Tesla’s go when they die?
I you look at the entire life of an electric car from beginning to end then the conclusion is that Electric cars are worse for the environment than Gas powered ones. The whole thing is a scam. And not one that I should have to pay for.
Coal cars. Nice.
WOOHOO! The free golf cart is back!!
“That’s a pretty concrete application of how the Green New Deal can create jobs in the United States,” Khanna, the first vice chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, told reporters.”
she’s absolutely correct! That is EXACTLY how the GND works: taxpayer money subsidizing things that couldn’t exist without taxpayer subsidies, in this case expensive toys for the wealthy ...
I wonder how much money Elon Musk gave this guy.
Subsidies (the endless supply of taxpayer funding) is the base for his Ponzi scheme. Without subsidies Tesla and Musk will definitely go under.
Y’all oppose the mortgage tax credit, right? and don’t take any other deductions/credits?
Electric cars are a good step forward in automotive technology. Tesla would be about where it is without “subsidies” ... though, being available, Musk would have been stupid to not leverage their existence for all they’re worth. If you have a problem with that, whine at your legislator - not Tesla.
Tax cuts are a good thing. Lacking those, let’s get whatever credits passed we can. Don’t confuse “credits” with “funding”: there’s a difference between keeping more money you earned, vs stealing it from others.
Solyndra was given a huge pile of taxpayer money, and promptly disappeared.
Tesla wasn’t, is producing high-quality high-tech cars for reasonable prices (under $30K now), and has paid more in taxes than the “subsidies” total.
Every Democrat is a complete economic dunderhead and ignoramus. Breaking every window in a building will create lots of Democrat job just as digging ditches and filling them in also creates Democrat jobs.
Robbing Peter to provide an EV tax credit to Paul may create a new EV job, but all the stuff Peter was going to buy in the first place will not be bought.
How can they honestly think hiking taxes to steal from Peter to give to Paul increases jobs? That is truly a zero sum game. GROWING the economy is what creates jobs.