Posted on 01/13/2015 2:11:14 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Joni Erst, we have a hog for you, take care of business.
The Government DOESN”T NEED MORE OF OUR MONEY!!!!!
We need to SHRINK GOVERNMENT!!!
Hmmm. Great idea, Orrin. Let's look at some other things this could be applied to....
Air Recycling Fee People who breathe the air ought to pay for it — that’s a small price to pay to enjoy the finest air supply in the world. That may be where we’ll have to go.
Pedestrian Fee People who are ambulatory ought to pay for it — that’s a small price to pay to enjoy the privilege of moving around the best country in the world. That may be where we’ll have to go.
Non-Ambulatory Person Fee People who choose to not move around ought to pay for it— that’s a small price to pay to enjoy moments of rest or simply not moving around the best country in the world. That may be where we’ll have to go.
Personal Existence Fee People who exist ought to pay for it — that’s a small price to pay to enjoy the priviledge of being alive. That may be where we’ll have to go.
Where you will have to go, Orrin, along with your similarly minded compatriots and lobbyists, is AWAY. You people were put into office to halt and roll back the insanity of the past 6 years, and the first thing you people do is look for ways to perpetuate it.
These are probably the same people who say "I'm personally against abortion, but ..."
There are far too many "Republicans" who never met a tax they didn't like.
So you would rather pay much more for road use just for the ‘pleasure’ of not calling that cost a tax?
The highest combined state and local gas tax is around 70 cents per gallon. Even if you were only getting 15 MPG that represents a ‘toll’ of under 5 cents per mile.
I prefer a 5 cents cost to a 20 cents cost regardless of what that cost is called.
Punish the innocent. Morons. First, look at every penny you spend out of the Highway Trust Fund. Look for all the waste, fraud and abuse. Do your d*mn jobs first, before asking us to pay more.
Republicans, no wonder your brand sucks. You've earned it.
This is the priority of the GOP - raising the gas tax?
Not a dime’s bit of difference between the two parties.
They just took the oath a week or so ago and already trying to raise taxes. Already backing off on repealing OCare, already talking about passing amnesty, already passed a $1.2 trillion Cromnibus giving Obama everything he wants.
The Revenue from the Gasoline Tax is not dependent on the price of oil, is a tax per gallon. These GOPe scum hope you won’t notice since the price at the pump has returned to pre-obama price. Come on Sarah-Ted give us a real choice.
To revise and extend my remarks, even to include extraneous material.
Run for Congress and you too can have that privilege.
Even Levin griped about opposition to this scum bag. He gave us Buzzy Ginsberg, recommended her to Billery.
$.98 - $.89 < $.10
I am against this, but if you have to raise revenue based on fuel do it with an import tariff on crude. This would actually benefit US oil workers. Retail gas taxes are stupid, stupid, stupid when it comes to fuel taxes.
The revenue generated from the gas tax goes to the Highway Trust Fund, which was was established in 1956 and is the primary way that federal highway and transit programs are funded.
Diesel Fuel is taxed 6 cents more per gallon than is gasoline. That money goes for Deficit Reduction, not to the Highway Trust Fund.
Bill Clinton and Congress passed the higher tax diesel because trucks don't vote, automobile drivers do vote.
Any increase in the diesel tax is an indirect tax and is hidden from the voters. Take a look at the number of 18 wheelers on the highway. You buy the goods they haul, you pay for their taxes.
The author is either ignorant or is lying about where the tax money goes.
I get beat-up EVERY TIME that I call for a gas tax increase...so I figured I’d call for the alternative - since we WILL get one or the other.
Looks like that’s not too popular either.
An import tariff on crude is the only one that makes sense.
Call for fiscal responsibility. With that, more taxes or pay by the mile schemes won't be needed.
“Call for fiscal responsibility. With that, more taxes or pay by the mile schemes won’t be needed.”
Yes, if that were a valid third option - but it seems to be locked out, and we wind up with either the gas tax or tolling - certainly in Texas, at least.
Ha Ha! You are correct we will get one or the other and you will get beat up for suggesting either.
My concern with tolls is that most lead to massive tracking as the systems (as in Europe) would likely be based on license plate recognition. That would provide a large database of people’s movements (probably with pictures/facial recognition).
Tolls always end up more expensive than even the least economical gas guzzler would pay in tax, and would probably rise faster with less resistance (politicians: “but it’s a private corporation, what can we do?”).
As roads do need to be paid for the gas tax is probably the easiest and least intrusive. If they do increase the gas tax than at they should remove the gap between diesel and gasoline. That would allow diesel powered cars a fair shake in the market (the days of agricultural diesel engines are long gone; modern diesels can provide all the performance of gasoline with none of the rattle of diesels of old).
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