Actually the entire tax system is either set up to benefit business or for social engineering. Ie the huge deductions when you have children or buy a house. So promoting an electric car versus a gas car is obviously also a socially engineered tax that she's supposedly to help with pollution etc. Billions have been given away to consumers in the effort to help manufacturers of electric vehicles. Nothing has been given to hybrids which would have benefited much more as their more of them, just imagine if 7500 was taken off the price of a $20,000 car that was a hybrid, literally tens of millions would be sold because they would become the cheapest cars and every manufacturer would try to make them.
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Originally Posted by GrumpyOldMan
Yeah, it's called social engineering, sadly. The government attempts to change social behavior by providing incentives to change. BOTH parties do it. The sad thing is when social engineering is done to facilitate a politician getting into the office or staying in office, not for the benefit of society.
There are examples of governments doing social engineering that is to benefit society, New Zealand comes to mind as a country that focuses its government on benefiting the people, and not big business. Eisenhower warned us about funding the Military-Industrial Complex, and we ignored him, so we just spent 20 years and $3T subsidizing an industry that focuses on meddling in other countries lives - and not protecting the US, since there are NO countries (other than possibly China) that could threaten the US and expect to survive the action.
But, yes, I agree with your post. And it is a sad post.
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