"RG" wrote in message
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It *should* reduce waste, assuming the manufacturers don't keep pumping
out so many new ones that they also sit on the lots for a year at a time.
Unfortunately, they do.

Not for long. Apparently you haven't been paying attention to what's
going on in Detroit these days. Excess capacity is being sold off and
shut down as quickly as possible. It would be happening much, much faster
if not for the formidable obstacle of the UAW. But it is happening. The
survival of the domestic auto industry depends on it.

You really need to develop at least a modicum of faith in free markets.
It is not a false religion.



I'm paying very close attention, and I see the process at work. However,
this will not completely change those who don't understand the difference
between having the right to buy anything they want, and the concept of
whether their decisions are good ones for the country as a whole.