Posted on 02/06/2016 6:02:34 AM PST by HomerBohn
It's all happening so fast, it's hard to keep up with all the b.s. coming out of the president and his White House in his last year.
In case you missed it, Obama just proposed raising the gas tax to what would amount to 136%.
By proposing a $10 per barrel tax on every barrel of oil produced in the U.S., Obama wants to add a 25 cent gas tax on every gallon of gas you purchase at the pump. He wants to use it to pay for his green transportation initiatives.
Considering federal gas tax is 18.4 cents a gallon currently, this would mean a whopping 136% increase. When state taxes are considered, we will be paying 70 cents in tax on every gallon of gas.
While a 25 cent increase per gallon may not seem like a lot considering how low gas prices are at the moment, just consider how much we would all feel it if/when prices go back up to what they were a few years ago. The cost of everything will go up even more in this country, especially food.
Obama knows this fact. He's the one who pointed it out actually.
As Daily Caller reported, Obama was just telling us all a few years back how much gas prices have the ability to harm everyone in the country, and especially people who are poor and just trying to make ends meet:
Obama told Georgetown University students in a 2011 speech that "rising prices at the pump affect everybody - workers, farmers, truck drivers, restaurant owners, students who are lucky enough to have a car."
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"Businesses see rising prices at the pump hurt their bottom line," Obama warned in 2011. "Families feel the pinch when they fill up their tank. And for Americans that are already struggling to get by, a hike in gas prices really makes their lives that much harder. It hurts."
So, in other words, Obama is openly admitting he wants to hurt you financially.
Guess that isn't really news to most of us.
And raising gas prices, along with the price of heating oil and other utilities, will raise the cost of everything else. It's a brilliant idea if you really hate to see a prosperous nation . When the phony president, Obama is gone, if he leaves office when his term is up, nothing will change
It’s not the tax increase so much as his intent to fritter it away on things people have demonstrated that they don’t want - high speed rail and mass transit. If the money went to improve airports, roads, and highways then I might be willing to listen.
It will take a compliant congress to approve such a tax. Anybody worried?
He said he wanted $8.00 per gallon gas. He said at the time that it was necessary. In his last year he will do his darndest to reach his goal.
With gas at $30 a barrel, a $10 tax on domestic production would kill it dead instantly.
If ever I have heard something which might make me believe he’s in the pocket of the Saudis, this is it.
I bet old Sandinista Sanders thinks it’s not high enough.
So, which Republican will float the trial balloon of accepting the tax increase in return for ending the ethanol mandate ?
Exactly. oil under 30 dollars a barrel and he wants to add $10 on top of that. He effectively killed coal...and he sure wants to kill oil. His f@ckit list this last year in office make him even more dangerous than ever.
When you post and article....please don’t post a picture of that mulatto muslim marxist faggot. I literally cannot stand the sight of him. It makes the article hard to read.
What are green transportation initiatives?
If a student has a car it’s because of “luck” right Obutthole?
In a sane world, ideas such as this would be openly mocked, as they should be.
It’s the Clintoon BTU Tax all over again...
Think "Solyndra on wheels".
“...high speed rail and mass transit. If the money went to improve airports, roads, and highways then I might be willing to listen.”
You know, I once thought this way too, but giving money to this government to do or fix something is much like giving money to a homeless person so that they can get some food and clothes. You can bet they they will go out and buy cigarettes and booze with it.
Giving money to the government is like giving the keys to a Corvette, 100 dollars, and a bottle of whiskey to an 18 year old kid. It never ends well.
Scared to death.
Hopefully Trump will own this in a news cycle.
The man Obama is a sicko and a liar and a thief and a destroyer of all good and right. He has changed America into a cesspool and works against all who love America as he causes hatred, violence, and poverty throughout the nation. The left is communist, the rinos are liberal thieves, only the conservatives remain patriotic.
And the rino Congress supports the monster.
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