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Is a Tax by the Mile Coming Down the Road?

6 May 2011

This week, a proposal to tax cars by the mile seemed to take the country by surprise. But, yawn, it’s actually so 2009. Two years ago, a “tax by the kilometer” was made law in Holland. At the time, it was fun to speculate which country might be next (Germany had interest in the concept), [...]

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Tax By the Kilometer: A New Meaning to “Going Dutch”

16 November 2009

The Dutch are well known for Delft pottery, wooden shoes, legalized prostitution and windmills. Perhaps not surprisingly, many of those things haven’t caught on in all areas of the world (oh c’mon, tell me that you have a pair of wooden shoes in your closet). I have a feeling that list of things that aren’t [...]

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