Attention: TDR Forum Junkies 
rbattelle
TDR MEMBER
Mark Jackson, CEO of AutoNation (one of the nation's largest automobile dealers with numerous nationwide franchises), has a commentary in the 3 October Automotive News that really made me dislike him and his company. The title is:
"A Tax Increase on Gasoline is Long Overdue"
The ensuing commentary suggests that the government increase tax on gasoline to reduce demand. He hides the anti-free market, anti-american, and socialist basis of this argument by pointing out that high fuel consumption is a threat to national security.
He goes on to compare the tax on alcohol and cigarettes to a tax on gasoline, placing all three in the same category of taxes whose purpose is to decrease public consumption.
He says,
He points out that vehicles have become bloated in terms of both weight and horsepower. Then he says:
Oh, God forbid people should have what they want! We can't have that, now can we! How easy it is to suggest a tax hike from the comfort of our limosine!
As a result, I will never purchase a vehicle from any AutoNation dealer as long as Mark Jackson is CEO. Long live the free market!
-Ryan
"A Tax Increase on Gasoline is Long Overdue"
The ensuing commentary suggests that the government increase tax on gasoline to reduce demand. He hides the anti-free market, anti-american, and socialist basis of this argument by pointing out that high fuel consumption is a threat to national security.
He goes on to compare the tax on alcohol and cigarettes to a tax on gasoline, placing all three in the same category of taxes whose purpose is to decrease public consumption.
He says,
He points out that vehicles have become bloated in terms of both weight and horsepower. Then he says:
Oh, God forbid people should have what they want! We can't have that, now can we! How easy it is to suggest a tax hike from the comfort of our limosine!
As a result, I will never purchase a vehicle from any AutoNation dealer as long as Mark Jackson is CEO. Long live the free market!
-Ryan
