Consumers who don’t want to see their tax dollars put towards efforts to keep automakers like General Motors afloat may want to take a look at used cars in New Jersey in light of news concerning the source of funding for a new marketing initiative.

The National Taxpayers Union says that a recent report from a Congressional oversight panel finds that GM is unlikely to be able to pay back a $50 billion investment made by the government with public funds earlier this year. In spite of that news, the organization notes that General Motors is still moving forward with a money back guarantee program.

The fine print hasn’t been finalized yet, but GM vice president of marketing Bob Lutz says that in its basic form, the automaker will accept returns of any car that has been on the road for less than two months or driven less than 4,000 miles.

“According to the State of New York Banking Department, a new car loses up to 20 percent of its value the second it drives off a dealer’s lot,” reports the NTU in a statement on the program. “Should taxpayers be footing this bill for GM’s Zipcar-like incentive program?”

Late night infomercials often tout that their products come with a money-back guarantee. Now General Motors is offering a similar 60-day guarantee, and the company admits that it may increase the supply of used cars in New Jersey and other states.

Buyers who are looking at Chevrolet, Buick, GMC or Cadillac vehicles now have the opportunity to return their purchases for up to two months and receive the full purchase price, notes Forbes. The campaign is designed to improve the perception of GM’s build quality, which has been seen as lacking compared to other manufacturer’s offerings.

“The parents went bankrupt, but the kids had nothing to do with it,” Lutz told the magazine of the new campaign, which avoids the stigma of government bailouts by not including the GM logo. “In the public eye, the brands are morally exonerated from the unfortunate moral event that befell their parents.”

The plan includes funding for a return rate of up to 3 percent of cars purchased, meaning that the company is willing to consider that several cars out of each one hundred sold could be returned, notes thetruthaboutcars.com. Although company officials estimate that fewer than 3 percent will actually be returned, they admit that it could increase the supply of used cars in New Jersey and nationwide.

Industry watchers say that the market for used cars in New York could see an upswing again, as buyers who chose to wait out the Cash for Clunkers program may now be looking to affordable pre-owned models.

Those who did will benefit from better pricing, since “oftentimes people buy cars and don’t know the difference between a good deal and a bad deal,” Jeremy Anwyl, Edmunds.com CEO, told the Chiacgo Tribune.

Buyers who didn’t wait to trade-in used cars in New York may have lost the chance to pick up less expensive vehicles because demand drove prices up during the Cash for Clunkers program, analysts told the newspaper.

The decrease in the number of new car purchases has been seen in some little-used metrics, including the revenues towns have generated from vehicle registrations.

In New Hampshire, some towns are facing shortfalls of hundreds of thousands of dollars because buyers are choosing not to purchase new vehicles, either waiting to trade-in or purchasing pre-owned cars instead, reports the Eagle-Tribune.