Posted on 11/25/2018 6:13:24 AM PST by Kaslin
The ploy worked for them with daddy "Read my lips: no new taxes" Bush back in 1990.
Bush made the campaign promise "No New Taxes" then broke it when he agreed to a compromise budget with the democrat senate that included tax increases.
That turned him into a one term president.
Is the proposed tax 30 cents per gallon or 0.3 cents (1 penny per 3 gallons)?
” And no matter how much their living standard may have improved .30 cents per gallon at the pump is a significant chunk of their hard earned raises, savings, and work. One estimate puts it at $405 per month per driver.”
I am dead set against any additional federal tax on anything, especially gasoline but, having said that, the person who came up with that $405. a month for a thirty cents per gallon tax needs to sober up and take some math lessons. That would be 1500 gallons of gasoline per month. My wife and I don’t use anywhere near that for an F-150, a Mercury Marquis, a lawn mower, a Terramite, chain saw, leaf blower, string trimmer and a tractor. You would have to drive all day, every day, all week, every week in a vehicle with very poor gas miieage.
Your wrong. They do affect you even with out a car. Everything is delivered with gas or diesel.
If the cost of moving products goes up, the cost of said product goes with it.
How about we put an end to the endless and senseless wars in the ME and use that money for infrastructure?
How about slapping taxes/fees on money that illegals wire back to their native country?
Did you sleep through Econ 101?
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Econ 101 — the Milton Friedman version — suggests that users should pay for roads and bridges — so that the money saved from ending wars can be broadly distributed via tax cuts.
Taxing illegals is a great idea, but I’d like to share in the benefits if I don’t drive a car or own trucks.
This just another example that shows foreign money/influence is more powerful than the influence of the Americn voter.
It’s 14 cents per gallon in two stages on top of 25% increase in market fuel price.
Right.
Wrong.
I guess you did sleep.
Yep. Everything would be affected. Everything.
[Im personally car free so new gas taxes wouldn’t affect me but they would affect everyone who drives for a living.]
Indirectly it would but I see your point.
If the President approves this, he cannot rightly complain about interest rates inching up.
Thirty cents/gallon plus what the states tack on (you know they will not let the opportunity get by), will slow the economy down just as much as higher rates.
Well said in eight words...
I don't think the dimwits who about to run the House actually think Trump will sign off on this idoit idea, it's a trial balloon to develop a 2020 campaign to see what sticks as a workable talking point.
Look for several more to pop up.
The heads of Global Warming nuts must be exploding every time they fill up their Hummers with all this cheap gas ,LOL
The article uses “.30 cents per gallon” repeatedly, which is confusing. The zero makes it seem like 30 cents, but the decimal should mean 3/10 of a cent.
Really? Another devious Democrat plot......Yawn.
Democrats have blithely abandoned their role in the two-party system of checks and balances.
They have morphed into an invading army......trailed by a bunch of camp followers.
Are they that stupid? Didnt learn from Hillary's defeat?
Let's hope they continue on their vengeful course ....b/c we, the deplorables, are taking note.
All of their machinations against Trump are a slap in the face to voters.
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As FReeper KNARF insightfully posted:
Democrats have not acted as a political arm in a long time.
All we, the people, get subjected to is gauntlet after gauntlet thrown down.
Dems have morphed into an aggressive army challenging a peaceful nation....a nation they despise.
Forget about Democrats and forget about Trump. What incentive does the GOP-controlled Senate have to support such a tax hike?
I’m all in for a gas tax, as long as it’s voluntary.
Look at Paris. Even the French don’t like the gas tax.
Think of all the projects they could accomplish if they cut social spending.
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