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Americans can no longer afford their cars (www.newsweek.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Blaze@lemmy.zip to c/personalfinance@lemmy.ml

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[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

I wasn't blaming farmers for anything. I was holding them up as an example of someone that legitimately likely needs a pickup. And if tax breaks are available to them, why shouldn't they take advantage of them? You can argue the subsidies shouldn't be there, and perhaps they shouldn't, but they are, and I don't blame people for taking advantage of them.

Similar situation: Education has gotten so expensive, possibly because student loans are so readily available. If there were no loans available, few people could afford college, so it seems very likely the colleges would find ways to make it less expensive...or a bunch would go out of business.

I am neither young nor an urbanite.