So my daily driver is a compact pickup truck with a class 2 weight designation. I live in a rural area where roads don't always get plowed and I use it to haul pellets for heating... Among other useful things. My concern is that because it's not capital, or tax deductible because it's not used to earn an income; there'd be a tax Id have to pay simply for how and where I live that directly disenfranchises us as working class folks for no good reason.

Unfairly burdening the working class with taxes to fix the problems created by the free market is not a progressive idea in my opinion and I have strong reservations about it. Should it depend on my truck's weight class? That doesn't change what I need it for, but a larger truck would be more useful to me. (The reason I got a smaller truck is for fuel economy and driving in town).

I think if you believe in a healthily regulated free market under capitalism (I'm not a capitalist, but that's a whole other conversation), you need to address and consider need while also change our culture which would address the problems that American exceptionalist consumerism causes.

I typed this next part out first before adding more before it, but I'm gonna still leave this here as it expands on my point....

You seem to suggest that there are only two reasons folks have a truck and only one of them is valid and I don't understand that belief, partly because "work" is a very subjective term especially when it comes to what tax code and law considers how needs are addressed but we agree on a lot of other things regardless. Good chat all in all.