Furious1Auto: "Why when it would be replaced by excise tax that cannot be avoided by tax write offs, this means everyone will pay their fair share and the rich with crafty accountants would not skate leaving the middle class to fund our government with higher %'s of their income!"
First, you seem to paint all rich people as devious, crafty, unfairly anointed with white collar jobs, ripping off the general populous, or lastly out to get you personally.
You sincerely have hatred issues, I think.
Second, see this:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/0...e.ap/index.html
If you squeeze the upper middle classes, they won't buy Ford, they'll buy used. Used doesn't mean anything to Ford Motor Company but it means everything to -your- job and income.