Cash for Golf Carts
18th October 2009
The golf-cart boom has followed an IRS ruling that golf carts qualify for the electric-car credit as long as they are also road worthy. These qualifying golf carts are essentially the same as normal golf carts save for adding some safety features, such as side and rearview mirrors and three-point seat belts. They typically can go 15 to 25 miles per hour.
The problem with government programs is that the people who make a living gaming the system are smarter — and always will be — than the people who set up the government programs. Entrepreneurs are always a step ahead of bureaucrats, just by the nature of the personality types involved. This is why having the government run something leads inevitably to waste/fraud/abuse, and always will. You would think that people would eventually catch on to this, but apparently they never do.