Thread: Luxury Tax defeated in Senate!!!!!
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Old 04-09-2008, 10:34 AM
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Originally Posted by American Dave
seriously does $57K and up truly represent "luxury cars" ? Maybe ten years ago but not in 2008.
yeh exactly, an STi/Typhoon/Clubby sits above that mark and is nowhere near luxury..

IMO LCT is just another form of economic protection to protect the inefficient domestic manufacturers against much better imports (merc-beemer-audi etc) that would otherwise have a similar price, problem is nowadays even the locals are costing more than the threshold !!
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