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[EconProf]

To crush perfectly good, 18 MPG cars, some with less than 100k miles on them is positively sinful. The cars have lots of utility left in them, and in a world with needy people this is such a waste. 40 miles south of us poor people are pushing around real clunkers, massive polluters and unsafe gas guzzlers. There would be a net gain to the environment, to human safety, and to consumer satisfaction if our government could have exerted a modicum or creativity and traded our “clunkers” for theirs.

[bsrsharma]

EconProf: That was a very smart suggestion (destroying Mexican clunkers and replacing them with US gifted used cars) to reduce border/global pollution and get a lot of free goodwill. It is so sad our governments have so little creativity. Imagine if U.S. government offered to just buy more than, say, 5 or 7 year old cars for $3500-$4500 and gifted the good ones to Mexico in exchange for getting equal number of their cars for scrapping. Overall pollution would have been reduced and our auto factories would be working at full speed increasing employment. This would have been the best stimulus money can buy.

[bsrsharma]

EconProf: That was a very smart suggestion (destroying Mexican clunkers and replacing them with US gifted used cars) to reduce border/global pollution and get a lot of free goodwill. It is so sad our governments have so little creativity. Imagine if U.S. government offered to just buy more than, say, 5 or 7 year old cars for $3500-$4500 and gifted the good ones to Mexico in exchange for getting equal number of their cars for scrapping. Overall pollution would have been reduced and our auto factories would be working at full speed increasing employment. This would have been the best stimulus money can buy.

[bsrsharma]

EconProf: That was a very smart suggestion (destroying Mexican clunkers and replacing them with US gifted used cars) to reduce border/global pollution and get a lot of free goodwill. It is so sad our governments have so little creativity. Imagine if U.S. government offered to just buy more than, say, 5 or 7 year old cars for $3500-$4500 and gifted the good ones to Mexico in exchange for getting equal number of their cars for scrapping. Overall pollution would have been reduced and our auto factories would be working at full speed increasing employment. This would have been the best stimulus money can buy.

[bsrsharma]

EconProf: That was a very smart suggestion (destroying Mexican clunkers and replacing them with US gifted used cars) to reduce border/global pollution and get a lot of free goodwill. It is so sad our governments have so little creativity. Imagine if U.S. government offered to just buy more than, say, 5 or 7 year old cars for $3500-$4500 and gifted the good ones to Mexico in exchange for getting equal number of their cars for scrapping. Overall pollution would have been reduced and our auto factories would be working at full speed increasing employment. This would have been the best stimulus money can buy.

[bsrsharma]

EconProf: That was a very smart suggestion (destroying Mexican clunkers and replacing them with US gifted used cars) to reduce border/global pollution and get a lot of free goodwill. It is so sad our governments have so little creativity. Imagine if U.S. government offered to just buy more than, say, 5 or 7 year old cars for $3500-$4500 and gifted the good ones to Mexico in exchange for getting equal number of their cars for scrapping. Overall pollution would have been reduced and our auto factories would be working at full speed increasing employment. This would have been the best stimulus money can buy.

[SD Realtor]

It was not a perfectly good idea, it was perfectly stupid. It has nothing to do with incentivizing people to help the environment. Are you kidding me? It was an ill conceived idiotic idea. First off it is a subsidy for an already ailing auto industry that already had been pumped full of govt money. It also was a pathetic attempt to help people spend more money when people should be saving money rather then incur more debt. Finally it has done nothing but provide a strong bump in sales and clog the already overclogged landfills with many cars that were nowhere near ready to be destroyed.

I am amazed that this could be considered a great idea by anybody.

You really think this is a wise use of your tax dollars?

[SD Realtor]

It was not a perfectly good idea, it was perfectly stupid. It has nothing to do with incentivizing people to help the environment. Are you kidding me? It was an ill conceived idiotic idea. First off it is a subsidy for an already ailing auto industry that already had been pumped full of govt money. It also was a pathetic attempt to help people spend more money when people should be saving money rather then incur more debt. Finally it has done nothing but provide a strong bump in sales and clog the already overclogged landfills with many cars that were nowhere near ready to be destroyed.

I am amazed that this could be considered a great idea by anybody.

You really think this is a wise use of your tax dollars?

[SD Realtor]

It was not a perfectly good idea, it was perfectly stupid. It has nothing to do with incentivizing people to help the environment. Are you kidding me? It was an ill conceived idiotic idea. First off it is a subsidy for an already ailing auto industry that already had been pumped full of govt money. It also was a pathetic attempt to help people spend more money when people should be saving money rather then incur more debt. Finally it has done nothing but provide a strong bump in sales and clog the already overclogged landfills with many cars that were nowhere near ready to be destroyed.

I am amazed that this could be considered a great idea by anybody.

You really think this is a wise use of your tax dollars?

[SD Realtor]

It was not a perfectly good idea, it was perfectly stupid. It has nothing to do with incentivizing people to help the environment. Are you kidding me? It was an ill conceived idiotic idea. First off it is a subsidy for an already ailing auto industry that already had been pumped full of govt money. It also was a pathetic attempt to help people spend more money when people should be saving money rather then incur more debt. Finally it has done nothing but provide a strong bump in sales and clog the already overclogged landfills with many cars that were nowhere near ready to be destroyed.

I am amazed that this could be considered a great idea by anybody.

You really think this is a wise use of your tax dollars?

[SD Realtor]

It was not a perfectly good idea, it was perfectly stupid. It has nothing to do with incentivizing people to help the environment. Are you kidding me? It was an ill conceived idiotic idea. First off it is a subsidy for an already ailing auto industry that already had been pumped full of govt money. It also was a pathetic attempt to help people spend more money when people should be saving money rather then incur more debt. Finally it has done nothing but provide a strong bump in sales and clog the already overclogged landfills with many cars that were nowhere near ready to be destroyed.

I am amazed that this could be considered a great idea by anybody.

You really think this is a wise use of your tax dollars?

[bsrsharma]

As it is being done, it is a poor plan; especially with the loophole allowing one to buy low MPG trucks. But done the way EconProf suggested, it would have done a lot of good. U.S. drivers get to buy newer cars, U.S. workers get jobs, pollution is reduced, a lot of goodwill is generated abroad. What government program comes anywhere half as good? Much of postwar (1945) government expenditure has been on creating and fighting imaginary enemies (and transfer payments).

[bsrsharma]

As it is being done, it is a poor plan; especially with the loophole allowing one to buy low MPG trucks. But done the way EconProf suggested, it would have done a lot of good. U.S. drivers get to buy newer cars, U.S. workers get jobs, pollution is reduced, a lot of goodwill is generated abroad. What government program comes anywhere half as good? Much of postwar (1945) government expenditure has been on creating and fighting imaginary enemies (and transfer payments).

[bsrsharma]

As it is being done, it is a poor plan; especially with the loophole allowing one to buy low MPG trucks. But done the way EconProf suggested, it would have done a lot of good. U.S. drivers get to buy newer cars, U.S. workers get jobs, pollution is reduced, a lot of goodwill is generated abroad. What government program comes anywhere half as good? Much of postwar (1945) government expenditure has been on creating and fighting imaginary enemies (and transfer payments).

[bsrsharma]

As it is being done, it is a poor plan; especially with the loophole allowing one to buy low MPG trucks. But done the way EconProf suggested, it would have done a lot of good. U.S. drivers get to buy newer cars, U.S. workers get jobs, pollution is reduced, a lot of goodwill is generated abroad. What government program comes anywhere half as good? Much of postwar (1945) government expenditure has been on creating and fighting imaginary enemies (and transfer payments).

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