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[-] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 3 points 2 years 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

[-] SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago

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.

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