It would, if we could get the Congress and the President to support it.
After all "money talks, *** walks".
It would also give us a good idea of who in Congress is for metrication and
who is not, since they would have to take a stand on the issue in order to
vote on the bill.
The backslidding on metrication started when Ronald Reagan did away the
Metrication Board and switched it's functions to an already existing
department without any additional funding to do the work. Next came the
removal of the deadline to change all roadsigns in the US to metric by a
given date from the federal highway funding legislation. It has been
downhill from there.
I agree though with the principle of lack of leadership. If our govenment
had conducted an active educational campain we would be further along then
we are today. Our leaders are ducking the issue by saying "let any change be
voluntery..." without an educational campain, knowing that instinctivly
people are going to resist any change in what they view as ordinary.
In doing so, they are also turning blind eye to the consitituation
requirement that Congress set the "weights and measurement" standards for
the whole country.
In short, they have been smoke screening all along. They do not want change
but do not want to come out and say so for fear of triggering a firestorm.
Linda
----Original Message Follows----
From: Scott Hudnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:36120] Tax break
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 20:34:38 -0800
I don¹t think ³backsliding² on metrication can be blamed on Republicans or
Democrats, I think it is due to the lack of leadership and poor policy
decisions in Washington.
I wonder if significant one-time corporate tax breaks to offset metrication
costs + reward companies for doing so, would get the ball rolling? Not an
ongoing thing, but a one-time break that would reward companies for
metricating (and remaining metric). Just a thought.
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Scott Hudnall
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