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https://www.greencarreports.com/new...ays-americans-resent-electric-car-tax-credits
Pretty much as you'd expect. People don't like it when other people, especially people richer than they are, benefit from their taxes.Results of a study released Tuesday by the American Energy Alliance found that most voters object to tax credits for electric cars.
Tellingly, the poll also shows that the public generally supports electric cars themselves.
Two-thirds said they are better for the environment than than gasoline powered cars, and 50 percent (a plurality) named that as the best reason to support the sale of electric vehicles, followed by 34 percent who said they reduce dependence on foreign oil. . . .
When it comes to tax credits the poll again split the sample between two different groups. One group, who has told, "The federal government pays everyone who buys an electric vehicle 75 hundred dollars," skewed toward saying that was "about right" (27 percent).
A second group, who was told "Taxpayers pay everyone who buys an electric vehicle 75 hundred dollars through a federal tax credit," skewed toward saying that was "way too much" (29 percent).
Respondents who where reminded by the questioner that they have some skin in the game were much more likely say the tax credits are too high.
Critics call this "push polling," setting up the question to lead respondents to the answer the pollsters favor.
The wording of both questions falls short of being precisely accurate, since not all electric car buyers qualify for the full tax credit.
When asked generally whether taxpayers should subsidize electric vehicles, 59 percent said no. That number rose to 67 percent when respondents were asked whether they thought they should help pay for people to buy electric vehicles.
The survey also asked respondents specifically whether wealthy people should get the same $7,500 tax credit as others. A slim majority, 55 percent, said no. The prompt leading to the question noted that the average electric car buyer makes $150,000 a year.
Writing in DeSmog Blog, Mark Renburke, executive director of Drive Electric America, disputed those figures, noting that 80 percent of electric cars are leased, and that only 38 percent of lessees earn more than $100,000 a year. . . .