It was a BS tax break, and Honda had every right to exploit the loophole.
Shame that they removed the break.
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Yeah, the small guys will suffer. Mechanic apprentices and salespeople laid off due to tighter budgets. Luxury dealer employees and management laid off wholesale.
Distribution. Sales. Maintenance. Delivery. All caught up in a domino effect that won't really benefit the government all that much.
A simple linear tax increase would suffice. But no, they had to make it logarithmic for some stupid "hoy-anti-oligarch-kami-no" reason.