Posted on 06/06/2009 3:38:11 AM PDT by TWP guy
Another pseudo-brilliant idea floating around these days is the concept of a gas tax, and Thomas flat-earth Friedman is just the guy to spread it. And Diane Sawyer is just the person to lap it up. Right-wingers can't be expected to be this brilliant, and people like Sawyer and Friedman have to explain it to us... But sometimes even left wingers resist the idea of a gas tax, as is evidenced by Sawyer's conversation with Carol Browner, Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change. Sawyer asked six different times in various ways whether the administration will implement a gas tax, being hip enough to parrot Friedman's op-ed pieces from the NY Times. "If you really want to change the fuel patterns of this country, and if you want to reduce dependence on foreign oil, not by 2015 or 2016, but right now, there is one way to do it. It's the way Europe has been doing it. And that is a gasoline tax," Sawyer bravely stipulates.
See, people up in the Northeast, they can drive 300 miles and pass through 4 states, and/or they could take a train. Here in Texas, I could drive over 700 miles west out of Houston and still be in state! But try telling that to Sawyer and Friedman. It's the perfect selective tax liberals love. People that don't really need cars that much approve, as people that don't smoke or drink approve of taxing the hell out of cigarettes and booze. Meanwhile, companies that depend on fuel to deliver the goods to Sawyer's posh residence will have to raise prices to cover costs, and in the midst of an economy poised to experience skyrocketing inflation, Sawyer urges for a gas tax.
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wow, a new tax! why couldn’t i be so brilliant.
“It’s so simple. Just ask Dianne Sawyer.”
Oh my. Those Liberals are so brilliant.
I hope they outlaw opposing political parties and save the United States and the world by being in power forever!
/s/
IMHO
well, how about she turn over her entire income to help obama out? she hasn’t figured out that its’ coming out of her pocket?
Ms. Sawyer is only acting in her own self-interest.
The MSM establishment rules this country. And they are Marxists.
Ms. Sawyer made these comments from the back of her limo......
She took precious time from her worship of our
Dear Leader and his wife with the buff arms?????
O made it clear that $4 gas didn’t bother him at all, only the quick rise to that level was a problem.
Don’t laugh, Hugo Chavez is well on his way to doing just this.
Not really a state run media, rather a DNC propaganda organization.
IIRC, the oil companies make ~ $0.08 per gallon.
The oil companies make less than the government and take all the risks...and the libs scream about the "evil" oil companies. Sheesh, libs are so stupid!
Well, dear, this is because they want us to all live in apartments in a city. That way they can control us better. You living out in the wilds of Texas are much harder to control. You could even own guns they don’t know about, and taking those guns away from you could prove risky to their forces. So it would really be better if you would move to New York. It will be easier for Big Brother to keep an eye on you there. Thanks. You have sixty days.
That’s why they love Uncle Hugo. (and uncle Josef,
uncle Adolf, uncle Mao......)
IMHO
Well, dear, this is because they want us to all live in apartments in a city. That way they can control us better. You living out in the wilds of Texas are much harder to control. You could even own guns they don’t know about, and taking those guns away from you could prove risky to their forces. So it would really be better if you would move to New York. It will be easier for Big Brother to keep an eye on you there. Thanks. You have sixty days.
And apparently a 9.5% unemployment rate and rising does not bother them at all either. In fact, they saved jobs and have not a shred of evidence to prove it!
They are now rushing to deliver more dollars. To blue states of course.
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