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But few cars are average. A 2004 Honda Civic that gets 36 miles to the gallon would pay more tax than today; a 2004 Range Rover that gets 12 would pay less.

One can imagine the roars about "fairness" and "emissions standards" that followed that determination. And it requires only memory, not imagination, to realize that the new tax would rather be added to, not "replace," the old once reality sets in.

POOR STEVE LYNCH PROBABLY will not get to ban Oxycontin. But he'll keep trying. He considers himself a "directing brain." So does Chuck Schumer.

Imagine that.

Lawrence Henry writes every week from North Andover, Massachusetts.

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