Eli5: Luxury Car Tax

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Why do countries add a tax onto “luxury vehicles”? Just seems like another way to sting the customer another unnecessary tax?

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The downside are impacts to domestic industry.

President Bush enacted a luxury tax in the early 90s, and it ended up costing the US economy more in job and economic losses in the aircraft and shipbuilding industries than it took in in revenue.

Clinton repealed it a few years later

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