• DavidGarcia@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    because they didn’t want to piss off the blue-collar demographic, they’re a huge voting block and drive trucks for work.

    that’s politics for you. creating nonsensical laws that aren’t made to fix problems, but only to curry favor, be that with voters, lobbyists, whatever

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        1 year ago

        Should be to work. I work in an office and about 25% drive trucks to work. Not one of then tow, off road or carry anything in the back, but will definitely pay 125k thanks to loans on their big boy diesel truck.

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          One of the laziest shop steward’s nephew I have ever dealt with had one of those trucks. You telling me a guy like that is hauling lumber on the weekends?

    • SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de
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      and drive trucks for work.

      Over here (in Europe) they just changed that. Reduced tariff is only for trucks registered to a company. Private persons pay full. It cut back on truck sales drastically.