RickJay, how little faith you have in the lobbying power of the motor companies!
When did lawyers start writing legislation and law? I mean I know that some members of the Houses are lawyers, but not the majority of them are…right?
I thought it was going to be about the kind of hummer you eat.
Wait, those are called lobsters. Nevermind. :o
I thought… I wanted to thank y… Anyway, those damn lawyers. Uses bar card to clean crumbs off desk… Oh, damn, I so wanted a hummer, I mean Hummer.
Didja read the article, lawyerhaterazzi? The tax break was for farmers and folks with heavy equipment. Oops, that will have to be revised and updated. This is what happens when anyone writes a law without access to the future for reference.
In all fairness, JohnT wasn’t the first to mention lawyers as benefiting unfairly from this. The linked article says: “But many SUVs, including the 6,400-pound H2, fall into that heavyweight category, and now a new class of small-business owners and the self-employed, such as construction company executives, doctors, real estate agents and lawyers, is qualifying for the deduction.” (Bolding mine.)
I don’t think it’s fair to say it’s because they write the laws but seriously, would somebody please explain to me what in the hell a lawyer needs the business use of a 6400 pound gas guzzling monstrosity for? Anyone besides those the law was originally written to provide some assistance for that claims this deduction is in my book tainted with a noticable layer of scum, but just them, not the entire profession.
Dunno environmental law? Maybe you need to drive to the top of the mountain to see all the radioactive waste dumped up there 
See, I agree that people running catering buisnesses, flower delivery and many many other sorts of buisnesses where you have to regularly haul large amoutns of stuff to clients deserve a tax break on buying a buisness vehicle.
I can even go as far as seeing that real estate agents need large spacious vehicles to take familes out to look at houses.
But doctors and lawyers?
I can’t see lawyers needing it, but I don’t imagine that a lot of lawyers were taking advantage of the law before the rise of SUVs.
As for doctors, a woman I went to college with has a family practice out in the Middle of Nowhere, West Virginia. She bought a used RV and set up a mobile health clinic. In her rather impoverished and completely rural area, the service is very needed and the tax deduction helps make it affordable.
Whoa, I didn’t know that. I always sort of figured it was where the girl put your nuts in her mouth and hummed a lil tune. Hehe
I would think a smaller, faster car would be more to the point, since ambulances can scoot along at a pretty good clip. But seriously folks…
This admirable bit of legislative ledgerdemain probably derives directly from Congress’ brutally corrupt decision to categorize the SUV as a “light truck” in order to protect it from emission standards.
But…but…I play the drums!
What civilian needs a hummer for any reason?
That’s an actual question for you hummer owners (and I know who you are…)
I’m a real estate agent, who just bought a big $ 50,000 SUV right before the end of the year, because my accountant called and told me that if I did this I could pork JonScribe right in the ass and ream him out so throughly the flapping shards of his ravaged and bleeding anus will have to held together with the mighty pincers of bulldog ants.
I took the huge Denali to my accountant after I purchased it and she came out into the parking lot to look at it. We had quite a time playing with all the bells and whistles like the heated seats front and rear, Onstar and the voice dialing option, and the XM Satellite radio and the heated, power folding mirrors and the rear entertainment center … Oh well it just goes on and on like a big box of chocolates. I’m getting a big chubby all over again just thinking about it and the huge tax write off I will be able to take at your expense JonScribe.
And the great thing is I do use it for business. In Commercial Real Estate it has proven to be an invaluable asset in crusing the back woods sections of large parcels in the Industrial Park with clients, where once I would have feared to go with my trusty Honda Accord.
My tax dollars fund stuff I don’t like all the time. Right now they’re funding an idiotic missile shield and landmines. That’s the price of democracy. One man’s SUV is another man’s NEA.
Well, we now know where your fantasies lie.
Barbara Cartland, watch out! You have new competition, and he is going for an cough untapped market in romance.
Big chubby?
Truth in advertising requires you to accurately label that thing a dessicated vienna sausage.
What? You got tired of driving Marge’s Canyanero? I think the built in lipstick holder would grow on you like the many other things which already are growing on you and threatening the biosphere.
LOL! Those were the two funniest posts I’ve read all day!
Hey, now. If they can still sell a foot-and-a-half long sausage and call it a “Yard-o-Beef,” he can call his a “big chubby.”
… and it’s deep too!
As I said astro, you enjoy yourself when gas hits $4 a gallon and the bubble bursts on the housing market. Wanker.