The future is bright: Tax Shifting

http://www.yahoo.com/s/292971

I generally don't give investment advice but buying into equities which benefit the most from tax shifting is the way to go!

Sounds good.

Considering how many goods are delivered to the stores by truck, since airplanes are relatively expensive (not to mention more limited in where they can go or what they can haul, as well as being a bigger source of NOx emissions that get put where they can do the greater damage), and trains don't (and can't) go everywhere, I'm wondering if all those economists they cited have taken into account rising prices of goods due to increased transportation costs, or let other desires overwhelm rational consideration.

I'm also not sure this proposal has taken into account the poor, who are more directly affected by gas prices, since gas prices are a greater part, proportionally, of their income than, say, the engineer pulling down $80K a year. Not everywhere has mass transit (whose costs where it exists would also go up; since most mass transit systems are government subsidised, it gets somewhat bizarre, with the government effectively taxing itself should gas prices bear more of the burden currently supported by income taxes), nor in some places is it even practical (out in the boonies, for example... like where you'd find the farmers that help feed the country).

Mind you, as someone who delivers pizzas for a living, there's a more immediate concern, considering 400 miles driven is a "slow" week for me. Even if every delivery driver could afford a hybrid car (which I can't, by a long shot, nor can many others I know or with whom I have spoken), that would still be a significant operating expense that's likely to hike up the cost of the delivered goods more than the potential income tax reduction. (If nothing else, from having to pay more to drivers so they can afford the gas that lets them do their job, instead of having them say "fuck this" and go somewhere else.)

Or all of the above can just be over-analyzing, and the real concern is just "stick it to the United States", like the Kyoto treaty that was utterly rejected by the entirety of the US Senate before it even came up for a vote.