Aaand my picture of Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors has been Kinja'd. I guess you'll have to imagine it.

Criminals aren’t smart, case in point, this guy.

Inventory is at record levels because people don’t want to buy a badly made car from a white supremacist piece of shit con-man.

Your mom’s a badass

There’s no income restriction on the $7500 for the lease.

Does an EV tax credit pay for your car with somebody else’s money, or simply allow you to pay for more of that EV with money you would have paid in taxes? I prefer to see it as the latter, though yes, less tax is collected overall, I’m still putting that money into the economy, which has knock-on tax implications.

but tax payers shouldn’t have covered that.

One really good alternative solution would be to add like $2-3/gallon gas tax. That would definitely decrease the use of inefficient people, drive many to use EV’s, and provide some desperately needed tax revenue to offset the insane amount of money spent by the US government.

Am I the biggest fan of the credit? No, at least not as designed; I wish there had been more in it to push people who didn’t need cars away from using them.

That said, the tax credit’s cost is cheap relative to the costs of paying for climate change, and it’s really hard to dislodge the idea that cars are not always…

I think you missed the posters point. 

I just did my taxes and didn’t see the part where I state that I didn’t buy an EV this year and therefore have another tax added on top of my other taxes.

My mom just turned 73 and she drives a Honda Fit Sport, five-speed manual. Orange Revolution Metallic. Of course, she’s a sample of one.

I’ve still yet to see any new Corvette without a senior citizen behind the wheel.

I would also say that we should not subsidize home mortgages, either. But, tax incentives are a great tool the government can use to change behaviors.

dont forget cheese. we subsidize the shit out of the dairy industry. so much so that we have to have a fucking strategic 3 million+ sqft cheese cave to store it all.

The original tax credit was to essentially make EVs cheaper while automakers scaled up production and brought production costs down to jumpstart the EV market. The the IRA pull the rug out from under them just as they were getting started in earnest. All in the name of saving maybe some jobs related to battery…

Short answer is no, but that wasn’t the point of the tax credits. It was meant to help automakers scale up EV production to bring prices down and jump-start the EV market. Automakers were/are still in the midst of scaling up and working towards more affordable EVs when the IRA basically pulled the rug out from under…

Government subsidies exist for all sorts of things. It can easily lead to a competitive edge. You see China doing the same...

Add kids or any other dependent to that list.

Sooooo..... you got yours and fuck everyone else? Very boomer of you.