• hansl@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    In case you’re serious; in most places in the world, cars are a luxury and taxed as such. In island nation in particular, imports are also very expensive in general and import taxes are most of their revenues.

    TLDR: tax the rich, poor don’t need cars in sane cities.

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        1 year ago

        A lot of island nations have extreme import taxes on cars. See: every Caribbean island.

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          1 year ago

          developing countries always have the highest taxes. i’m not aware of a single developing country that has cheap cars…