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To: Nathan Zachary
The amount of money flowing into government coffers from taxes is even beyond a democrats wet dreams.

At $0.184 dollars per gallon and 375 million gallons per day consumed (or purchased) the government take is about 69 million per day or over 25 billion per year.

30 posted on 06/10/2007 10:53:01 AM PDT by Michael.SF. ("The military Mission has long since been accomplished" -- Harry Reid, April 23, 2007)
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To: Michael.SF.
"375 million gallons per day consumed (or purchased)"

That seems like an awfully low number. Another thing is, the government dips into the oil well many times before pump taxes are taken. They take a cut at the well, then sip from the bucket as it's carried to it's final destination, the holding tanks at the gas station. Those are hidden taxes, which the final pump tax taxes again. Now they want to add a carbon tax along that route as well.

33 posted on 06/10/2007 11:15:50 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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