Steven Greenhut on California’s ‘Green’ Car Vouchers for the Poor

One longtime
critic of federal transportation spending once concluded that
it would be less expensive for the government to buy every new
transit rider a Jaguar XJ8 than it would be to build certain new
rail systems. Unfortunately, California officials may not have
realized that the idea of buying people new cars wasn’t a serious
proposal as much as a way to illustrate a point about excessive
spending. Steven Greenhut says this $30-million-a-year program is
essentially a “cash for clunkers” boondoggle.

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