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Breaking this out into it& #39;s own thread. Car dealers are engines of Trumpy reaction, a GOP donor base and a unproductive middleman in our economic system. What are some short-term policy ideas for causing them pain that Dems could realistically implement? https://twitter.com/mtsw/status/1325506983592488960">https://twitter.com/mtsw/stat...
Something I& #39;d add is that the economic bread and butter of car dealerships isn& #39;t sales but maintenance and repair, and the basically-inevitable-at-this-point proliferation of electric vehicles is going to completely wreck them even if we do nothing, but why not accelerate it?
Normally I find Elon Musk and Tesla& #39;s hooting crowd of fanboys exasperating and insufferable but, to their credit, they also hate the franchise dealership model and would be valuable allies in this fight.
endorse. keep & #39;em coming https://twitter.com/BartenderHemry/status/1325510412461355009">https://twitter.com/Bartender...
yes its worth noting that the medium-term planning for US automakers (lots of EVs) is also directly at odds at what& #39;s in the best interest of the dealers https://twitter.com/TheMacNaughton/status/1325512976195936261">https://twitter.com/TheMacNau...
another excellent idea https://twitter.com/JoshNH4H/status/1325513425708052485">https://twitter.com/JoshNH4H/...
The idea is less to reduce car sales (though that would be rad) but to allow OEMs to sell direct-to-consumer and cut out the middleman. I don& #39;t think there& #39;d be a big negative shock to overall tax revenue, https://twitter.com/andreamatranga/status/1325514161531441153">https://twitter.com/andreamat...
Lower number of overall dealerships (would especially be true of big 3) probably means it makes taxes more concentrated and would screw over some small municipalities that are reliant on a cluster of dealerships. But we should be discouraging existence of small munis anyway!
great point https://twitter.com/NW_Horadam/status/1325517201730891777">https://twitter.com/NW_Horada...
https://twitter.com/pendarvisjh/status/1325522612995444741">https://twitter.com/pendarvis...
