How about everyone filing a tax return next April gets automatically entered in a lottery? One chance in 150 to win a new car!
Wikipedia says there's 138 million US taxpayers. The average price of a new car sold in the US is $28,400. $25,000,000,000 would pay for 880,000 cars at retail cost.
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Date: 2008-12-09 05:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-09 11:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-10 01:18 am (UTC)Wikipedia says there's 138 million US taxpayers.
The average price of a new car sold in the US is $28,400.
$25,000,000,000 would pay for 880,000 cars at retail cost.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_the_United_States
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/autos/aut11.shtm
Or, to reduce the national consumption of gasoline, only give out fuel-efficient subcompacts, and increase the odds to 1 in 70.