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Since you can ask that question for every number, it is useless.

Unless you have indications that suggest "a deliberate protectionist move" it's pure polemic.

I have no idea how that specific number was reached. But since I don't suggest ulterior motives or a grand conspiracy I don't have to provide anything. You have to show evidence or at least a coherent argument that amounts to more than "I don't like the outcome".

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I've not suggested ANY conspiracy theory. I'm asking how that number was come to and it's a legitimate question.

"Hey Bill, we don't want to subsidize rich people's sports cars, what do you think is a good number for defining a sports car that we don't want to cover?

Uh, I don't know, maybe around 60k gets into the sports car range?"

You are right. 60k is an arbitrary number. Just like 50k and 70k is arbitrary.

But they wanted to have a limit, probably so rich people couldn't use it. So they probably just picked a round number that sounded nice.

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