We own a Ford Explorer, but usually drive a Subaru, mostly because it gets better mileage.
But I do shake my head at the idjits whose use of these behemoths is usually confined to driving to and from their way to Microsoft and Nordstrom’s. I usually keep it to myself and content myself with the notion of what they’ll do when gas hits $4 a gallon.
But this, makes me want to grab a ladder and climb up to the driver of the next Hummer I see and clock them with a rolled up copy of the tax code.
Why should some real estate agent or lawyer get a $38,000 tax break because they “use” their Hummer in their business?
And to any of you who bought a Hummer and are now rushing to your local H&R Block to cash in, I bid you a hearty “Fuck You!”
So she drives a 6000+ pound vehicle that gets 10 miles to the gallon so that she can have a phone with voice recognition?
Some people suggest that the US’s per capita consumption of world resources is obscene. I just can’t imagine why.
JohnT, the lawyers that write the laws are employed by the government, and therefore would not get this tax break. Why don’t you take your irrational conspiracy theory anti-lawyer prejudices and shove them up where the sun don’t shine?
If you read the article you will discover that the OP is an exaggeration. Buying one of these vehicles, if you are in a high income tax bracket, will give a deduction of $38k, leading to a tax saving of $15k.
Please explain to me why rudeness was necessary (other than “this is the Pit”. :rolleyes: )? Believe it or not (do as you will, it matters not to me), I didn’t even see the link.
My apologies, O’ Great Reader of Articles. :rolleyes:
Did they raise the limit again this year? Damn… I could never decide whether to squash all five right away, or kind of save 'em over the course of the year for when I really wanted 'em.
I hate that it’s “use it or lose it”… I can’t carry over unused kills to the next calendar year.
I knew a dentist at one time (1982 or so) that claimed an enormous Winnebago as a business expense. He had a tiny box of junk in the back that he made dental molds with and would come to your house. The IRS made him drive it to work every morning but he got away with it.
Princhester, sheesh, talk about a lack of proportional response.
If everyone responded to any comment with the desire to take as much offense as possible, we’d have nuclear fucking war on the boards.
I’m not taking as much offence as possible. I haven’t even mentioned felching once
The old lawyers make the laws to their own advantage thing is just something we’ve been over and over and it begins to get me down.
Besides which, all I said was that he should shove his prejudice somewhere. I wasn’t the one who took offence and started questioning whether there was any need to be so rude. In the effin’ Pit for goodness’ sake!
What peeves me most about this thing is that the Hummer (and it’s not JUST the Hummer) is big enough to be considered a ‘large’ truck for these purposes (>6,000lbs) but is ‘small’ enough to be owned by a regular joe and driven on our streets like any other car.
One wonders how long it will be before state and provincial legislatures think to license and register big SUVs differently from cars.
Presently most jurisdictions set the limit for commercial vehicle classification (at which point licensing, registration and safety rules all change) at 10,000 lbs; I’m guessing we see a new classification around 5000-6000 lbs within ten years. I find it ridiculous that anyone would drive a 6000-lb vehicle for personal business.
