Gas Guzzler Tax

[Atlas1]

Come on, are you just espousing garbage to increase your post count. Not a word of this is true and has nothing to do with the tax that was enacted in 1978. Please stop your political BS so that this tread can continue.

You must have me confused with someone else.........Who gives a shit about post count? As to my post, if you couldn’t pick up on the sarcasm or attempt to poke fun at this subject there’s not much I can do to help you. I bet you’re a blast at parties though. Everyone loves the guy that goes around correcting everyone on the tax code lol

Business both big and small get taxed on a myriad of things. Some are passed down and some are assimilated. The GG tax was enacted to get Detroit to make smaller, more fuel efficient cars (and it worked).

You would have to have been an utter fool to not think a new tax like this would not get passed down to consumers. Show me the myriad of new taxes on businesses that don’t get passed down.

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[WildHorse]

Show me the myriad of new taxes on businesses that don’t get passed down.

Everything gets passed down to the consumer. Taxes, CEO raises, hooker monies. Everything.

 

[Bikeman315]

You must have me confused with someone else.........Who gives a shit about post count? As to my post, if you couldn’t pick up on the sarcasm or attempt to poke fun at this subject there’s not much I can do to help you. I bet you’re a blast at parties though. Everyone loves the guy that goes around correcting everyone on the tax code lol

Well in that case neither of us have a sense of humor. Apologies if I misunderstood the intent of your post.

You would have to have been an utter fool to not think a new tax like this would not get passed down to consumers. Show me the myriad of new taxes on businesses that don’t get passed down.

Not sure why you are saying this is a new tax. It's 42 years old. At the time the tax was passed the understanding is that it would not be passed down. Well, we all know how that turned out.

 

[Bikeman315]

Everything gets passed down to the consumer. Taxes, CEO raises, hooker monies. Everything.

Speak to any small business owner and they will tell you that is not true. Now corporate America, that's another story!

 

[wilkinda65]

Everything gets passed down to the consumer. Taxes, CEO raises, hooker monies. Everything.

When it cums to hookers, I bypass the middle man and goto straight to the source

 

[Atlas1]

Well in that case neither of us have a sense of humor. Apologies if I misunderstood the intent of your post.

That’s the trouble with posting on forums with people you’ve don’t know in real life. Hard to really know what they are trying to say at times no hard feelings

Not sure why you are saying this is a new tax. It's 42 years old. At the time the tax was passed the understanding is that it would not be passed down. Well, we all know how that turned out.

I was referring to the time when the tax was passed. They had to know the car companies weren’t going to pay it, although ultimately I don’t think they cared either way. Just another revenue stream for gov.

 

[hbash]

Any information is worth something. thanks for your time and input. I'll do some digging and see if I can find a recent sticker with no gas guzzler tax to confirm or deny this.

From what I have been told by Ford... only the manual gets the Guzzler Tax.

 

[Bikeman315]

From what I have been told by Ford... only the manual gets the Guzzler Tax.

Take a look at post # 15. This confirms what you were told. Just another reason to get the A10.

 

[hbash]

Take a look at post # 15. This confirms what you were told. Just another reason to get the A10.

Not for me... I have been driving ONLY manual transmission cars for over 40 years. I have had the discussion before... to each his own.

 

[Charlemagne]

This sticker has gas guzzler tax for automatic too. Maybe it really depends on how many of those cars they made and the first cars of both transmission types don't get it (independently on each other).

 

[Somepothead]

This sticker has gas guzzler tax for automatic too. Maybe it really depends on how many of those cars they made and the first cars of both transmission types don't get it (independently on each other).

Back to the world not making sense anymore jk

Because of some of the great explinations that some of the guys responded with. If this A10 was hit with the gas guzzler tax, I think it has to be due to the number of cars produced.

 

[Bikeman315]

Back to the world not making sense anymore jk

Because of some of the great explinations that some of the guys responded with. If this A10 was hit with the gas guzzler tax, I think it has to be due to the number of cars produced.

Agreed. What else could it be?

 

[shogun32]

Passing it on to the consumer was not the governments intention, at the time.

well then true to form CONgress hasn't 2 brain cells to rub together. Corporations never pay anything. It either comes out of the share-holders ass or the buyer of the goods and services.

The GG tax was enacted to get Detroit to make smaller, more fuel efficient cars (and it worked).

then it should have been repealed by 1985'ish yes? Ahh nothing approximates eternal life on this planet like a tax... But I do believe the Jap invasion would have forced a behavioral change on Detroit just as (more?) effectively than the permanent grift levied on the consumer.

 

[Bikeman315]

well then true to form CONgress hasn't 2 brain cells to rub together. Corporations never pay anything. It either comes out of the share-holders ass or the buyer of the goods and services.


then it should have been repealed by 1985'ish yes? Ahh nothing approximates eternal life on this planet like a tax... But I do believe the Jap invasion would have forced a behavioral change on Detroit just as (more?) effectively than the permanent grift levied on the consumer.

Agreed. But the point of the tax at that time was to get the industry to build smaller, more fuel efficient cars. Remember this was even before fuel injection was popular. So regardless of who actually paid the end result was the same.

Repealing a tax? Now that’s funny.

 

[JuicySmollet]

I just got my sticker (M6) and in the top right hand it puts it in the EPA section, whereas the A10 didn't have that there. I think someone messed up on the A10.

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