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ransley wrote:
I still say Tax Incandesants and Rebate
Flourescents Today , not Buches 2010 BS of phoney improvements and no
real policy.


When you use tax policy to influence or control consumer behavior, you are
interfering with the "general marketplace," or the "invisible hand" of Adam
Smith.

Virtually all such interference is counter-productive.

Look at the cost of food as more and more people - with government
encouragement - put corn cobs in their Lexus.