Yeah, the world's 5th largest economy will just shut down if they phase out ICE sales in a subset of the transportation sector over 20 years. I guess all of Europe will die off, too. :-/
Was merely pointing out that, just because California has decided that it wants to put a time frame on stopping the sales of ICE vehicles 15 years from now doesn’t mean that the rest of the country is gonna be relegated to their way of thinking. At the moment the power grid in your 5th largest economy can’t even keep up. Never said anything about Europe either. In my opinion, when I visited family in Belgium last year it was a beautiful place to live. Might even consider living there if given the chance. California? No way on Earth you could make me want to live there.
yeah, the same place that wants to secede from the united states and made it legal to defecate in the streets of san francisco because they dont want to "discriminate against homeless people".
Belgium, eh?
I see that now, maybe they read my post the other day and decided to clear it up
Is that what non Floridians really think? Wow maybe I need a new tax guy because he’s obviously been filing my taxes in the wrong state. Those are some crazy claims your making there old bmw fanboy
A GT350 in Belgium costs 5-8k euro per year for road tax (depending on which part of the country it is). It also cost 3-5K to convert to pass inspection and 21% VAT and 10% import tax. Definitely not cheap. Economy is the size of Penn.
Can he move to Luxembourg and just do Belgium on the weekends? I did a Battle of the Bulge tour in Belgium a few winters back, had a wonderful time. I do recall that in Luxembourg there were about 20 gas stations right in a row, just inside the border from Belgium. Lower taxes I presume?
That's like bottle shops in Delaware and NJ, across the border from Philadelphia. Or fireworks shops in IN across from Chicago. People will always find a way to satisfy demand! Note to those in SE PA: if you do large-volume liquor runs to NJ or DE, use different routes going and coming. I have seen cops pull over cars that cross the border and return within an hour and do a check for a trunkful of booze.
It's a pretty simple metric, total federal tax paid by state residents less total federal dollars disbursed to the state. Because our government redistributes funding through programs, some states are net suppliers and some are net consumers of tax money. FL is one of the larger net consumers on a per-capita basis. Beware of averages, and of course individual contributors vary. (Of course it's all public data, so you can verify if you want.)
