View Full Version : hummer tax break...
it's a long and hard process, but so was getting legal status on sidewalks across the usa, so there's hope...it would be great to target florida, cali and texas and get future owners tax breaks (like the one below). that could get the price down pretty far for a lot of people. even if it took a few years, it seems cosmically unbalanced that hummers can get this. the whole usa is tough, those big states would be a little easier, we just need to get epamds added.
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"Allow me to introduce you to a fabulous opportunity," Chris Thorpe, a sales representative for Hummer of Alaska, writes in a promotion letter. "A tax 'loophole' so big you could drive a Hummer H2 through it! Imagine being able to purchase the #1 large luxury SUV in America today . . . and receive a deduction for the entire purchase amount from your taxes this year!"
"How is this possible?" Thorpe asks. "Thanks to the Bush administration's recent economic stimulus package, small businesses and the self-employed are eligible to deduct the entire purchase cost of new equipment up to $100,000 the year of the purchase." But these provisions are supposed to help farmers and small-business owners buy equipment to transport merchandise and haul stuff. No matter. "The Hummer H2 qualifies for this IRS Sec. 179 deduction by its gross vehicle weight of over 6,000 lbs. Cars and medium sized SUV's don't qualify for this deduction," Thorpe writes. "If you are seriously considering acquisition of a new vehicle, step up to the vehicle that can take you where you want to be, financially and otherwise."
more here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A1861-2003Sep25?language=printer
cheers,
pt
Peter iNova
10-02-2003, 04:32 AM
...apparently Kamen did. (Is that a factoid? Does he really have a Hummer?)
-iNova
http://www.glidewalk.com
*shakes head in disbelief*
kthxbye.
q.
http://www.pcisys.net/~qwhew/segway/jpg_segway_sfest_08312003_sunday_3f.jpg
(plz click image to enlarge.)
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(he does have one, but not that pansy h2 crappy one). that said, i don't really care if dean has a fleet of them, i'm interested in people keeping whatever tax breaks they're getting...but just including us :-]
cheers,
pt
quote:Originally posted by Peter iNova
...apparently Kamen did. (Is that a factoid? Does he really have a Hummer?)
-iNova
http://www.glidewalk.com
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i though that, too; but his
is probably older than the
legislation; ...just guess-
ing, though. (but, _if_ i
had an older one that isn't
grandfathered into the new
legislation, i'd have a rea-
son to trade in and get a new
one. rationale: "i don't
make the rules, i just enjoy
them"--frazier. ahem!)
kthxbye.
q.
http://www.pcisys.net/~qwhew/segway/jpg_segway_sfest_08312003_sunday_3c.jpg
(plz click image to enlarge.)
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opti6600
10-02-2003, 07:50 AM
...and Kamen also happens to have a private jet and two Enstrom helicopters, oh, and a Porsche 944.
Something he's always been a proponent of is called "intermodal transportation" - think of it as the right vehicle for the right trip. Walking is efficient for a mile, or around your neighborhood, Segways are efficient for getting around your town in a lot of cases, a Hummer is efficient in getting from town to town, and a jet can even be efficient when getting from one corner of the country to the other.
My beef with the H2 is that you have schmucks using them for soccer mom errands, trips to the grocery store, URBAN COMMUTING! Hell, Woz has a Hummer H1 too, but you saw an interesting application of the intermodal transportation scheme when he road-tripped a veritable mob of folks in it.
think of the soccer moms!
Poindexter
10-02-2003, 08:08 AM
Yipee! Now that is a bit of quality legislation.
Good thing we live in country where no one can tell you how to use a product, sold on the free market, legally (except tobacco).
Parents who drive kids to any activity are free to drive a city bus if they want and no one should stop them. If fact, I see fewer people riding city buses in my town than would fit in a Hummer. Which is less polluting (as if it matters)?
I work for a company that builds Hummer dealerships. Money I earn from building those dealership will go to buy a Segway. The trickle down theroy works!
"Anyone who wants to be a New Urbanist has never been Old Urbanist." Michael Poindexter (critic)
Say it ain't so. If Dean indeed has a Hummer, i share pt's sentiments, lets hope he has H1.
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axiotek
10-02-2003, 11:42 AM
quote:Originally posted by Poindexter
Parents who drive kids to any activity are free to drive a city bus if they want and no one should stop them.
sure, they just need to pay equitably for the privledge including cost to the environment and I'm not just talking global warming, which I know you are in denial of. the loophole should be closed and the IRS should have a field day with audits when all these "self-employed" folks' returns are reviewed.
buses are regulated, is that wrong? how does one define a bus? in some states, Utah comes to mind, x or more kids in any vehicle is considered a bus and the driver must have the appropriate license. is that anti-American?
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jgassor
10-02-2003, 11:50 AM
Dean's H1 has been shown in a few of the video clips at his house (showing him loading his pSeries int the back of the Hummer).
Jim
Live life to the full, get Tivo and get a Segway! http://segway.gassor.com
Poindexter
10-02-2003, 01:20 PM
quote:sure, they just need to pay equitably for the privledge including cost to the environment
Who decides what is "equitable"?
quote:and I'm not just talking global warming, which I know you are in denial of.
Denial? Yeah, me and the majority of the scientific community.
quote:buses are regulated, is that wrong? how does one define a bus? in some states, Utah comes to mind, x or more kids in any vehicle is considered a bus and the driver must have the appropriate license. is that anti-American?
No, seems like a reasonable regulation.
BruceWright
10-02-2003, 01:29 PM
I live in Los Angeles.
Global warming or not, I still live in the smoggiest city in America.
My lungs say that SUV's and Hummers in particular should have to follow the same emission standards as the rest of us. It's stupid that they get a pass because somehow the're a truck. I don't know how a giant enclosed car full of seats is categorized as a truck, but it is.
-Bruce Wright
Segway: Vehicle of Dream
quote:Originally posted by X-man
Dean earned his. We helped. If it weren't for him, we wouldn't be posting comments on this board. The Lone Glider! I paid about $5K for my HT and my best guess is that Dean has spent upwards of $20K to provide it to me (before the recall).
I'd say we are all helping Dean rejoin the middle class :)
Chris
quote:Originally posted by clm
quote:Originally posted by X-man
Dean earned his. We helped. If it weren't for him, we wouldn't be posting comments on this board. The Lone Glider! I paid about $5K for my HT and my best guess is that Dean has spent upwards of $20K to provide it to me (before the recall).
I'd say we are all helping Dean rejoin the middle class :)
Chris
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i'd say he's "prolly" playing
with "house money," not his.
kthxbye.
q.
http://www.pcisys.net/~qwhew/segway/jpg_segway_sfest_08312003_sunday_3c.jpg
(plz click image to enlarge.)
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Cruzan Glider
10-02-2003, 08:58 PM
Maybe Segway owners should lobby congress for a tax break? Given that every mile we glide on our Segs is one less mile we drive and contribute to global warming, traffic congestion and road deterioration.
Mike
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GlideMaster
10-02-2003, 09:08 PM
quote:Originally posted by opti6600
...and Kamen also happens to have a private jet and two Enstrom helicopters, oh, and a Porsche 944.
Something he's always been a proponent of is called "intermodal transportation" - think of it as the right vehicle for the right trip. Walking is efficient for a mile, or around your neighborhood, Segways are efficient for getting around your town in a lot of cases, a Hummer is efficient in getting from town to town, and a jet can even be efficient when getting from one corner of the country to the other.
My beef with the H2 is that you have schmucks using them for soccer mom errands, trips to the grocery store, URBAN COMMUTING! Hell, Woz has a Hummer H1 too, but you saw an interesting application of the intermodal transportation scheme when he road-tripped a veritable mob of folks in it.
think of the soccer moms!
<center>He also has a few Segway gliders also!</center>
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Mr_Laurenzano
10-02-2003, 09:13 PM
Let me tell ya all about the Hummer. Its (Al) put together with glue. If they sold the orriginal model it would probally get better gas milage that the segway. Oh thats right the segway doesnt run on gas. I lived in one of these monsters for 9 months. In the middle of the Saudi Desert, off sand dunes and into the sunset. Go ahead get a break, while your at it give this owner of a segway one too. I could use it.
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