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Electric cars are heavy, expensive, and use no gas. This tax would be quickly regressive.


As has been discussed ad nauseum elsewhere, electric vehicles aren't appreciably more heavy than other commuter vehicles, especially given that damage to roads is non-linear. And as for them not using gas -- that's why taxing carbon would handle it. If electricity comes from natural gas or coal, then you pay tax on the electricity accordingly.


The answer to that is to compensate it with other progressive tax credit, or redistribute the benefit of the tax in other means.




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