Thursday, October 29, 2009

Cash for clunkers cost $24,000 per car

2 comments:

evan said...

Cash for Clunkers cost the government either $3500 or $4500 per car. It doesn't "not count" if people would have bought cars anyway.

evan said...

Not really. The money was obviously intended, first, as an incentive to buy cars. But it's also a behavioral incentive--if the governments get people to buy cars all at once, it gives the impression of the economy picking up and consumer confidence rising, etc.