Amazing. 37 posts so far and no one has touched on the second part of discussion on this thread, what effect will the cowardly, gutless, spineless, opportunists in DC have. AS far as I’m concerned it is SNAFU (situation normal all F’ed up). One thing I’m pretty sure of is the slime ball ruling class, being the opportunists they are, will try to take advantage of the dip in fuel costs to increase fuel taxes. That is not just in DC but state houses all around the country. Here in California we have ‘carbon taxes” taking effect on the first of the year. Our only saving grace was these passed when prices were high. I shudder to think what they would have been if they had foreseen this opportunity.
Here in Louisiana, the talk of more gasoline taxes has popped up a few times lately, but we have statewide legislative elections next year. I doubt many will want to run for reelection on a platform of higher taxes, especially after “tax and spend” Mary Landrieu got the stuffing beat out of her.
About $70 million/year is taken out of our transportation fund (gas taxes) and given to the State Police to waste. If they talk taxes, we conservatives will point out that misappropriation of money.
Fine, and the effect should most likely be roughly what it's been in the past. Here are the dates of the congressional give-away dates since 2009:
January 18, 2014
September 30, 2013
March 27, 2013
April 15, 2011
December 21, 2010
September 30, 2010
September 30, 2009
We got no dates of any sane balanced budget being signed into law --therefore we can't calculate what the benefit would have been. So you tell me: based on what we got, how can we predict that the results from this slimy sell-out will be any different than all we've had over past five years?