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Originally Posted by piece-itpete
C4C hurt the poor. It took the cheap cars off the road, and greatly lowered the amount of used parts available. Keeping that old Lincoln running (Bob I won't buy a new car anyway  ) I do have reason to see this.
So, subsidize the middle class at the expense of the poor.
And damage the enviroment anyway? |
Your argument might have some validity if Cash For Clunkers removed all or most of the affordable used cars from the market, even temporarily. It didn't.
As for used parts, some were generated by the program. Can you establish that the market could have absorbed more?
Did it damage the environment? I don't know. Even if there was some level of pollution generated in the process of recycling the cars, when balanced against the reduction in polluting vehicles on the road, was it still a net negative?
Knee-jerk wingnuttery.
John