How about checks for recent car buyers?

In his Jan. 3 letter to Fence Post, Louis Clarizio Jr. of Schaumburg suggests it would help us out of the recession if everyone buying a new car were given a check from the treasury. Louis feels that this would reduce current inventories, bring an influx of cash to car companies, get old cars off the road and help pollution problems.

And, of course, this would also help Louis Clarizio Jr.

Nothing wrong with that, but wouldn't it be fairer to give a treasury check to Joe the mark (a distant cousin to Joe the plumber) who bought a car six months ago, paying top dollar without the lure of a treasury check prompting him to act? This is the same Joe the mark who purchased 30 new cars over the last half-century, carefully studying the car market before each purchase and then walking into the dealership and making an impulse purchase, paying way too much for the car. He once bought a car off the showroom floor, paying so much for it that the salesman sent him an expensive basket of flowers after the sale.

Gene McDougall

Arlington Heights