NC Ping!
Posted on 03/27/2006 7:00:24 AM PST by GOPRaleigh
Be a part of history on May 9th!
May 9th is the first day of the 2006 legislative session at the North Carolina General Assembly. All of your Legislators will be in Raleigh and so will we! That¡¦s the day North Carolina Conservatives United will be having a STOP THE GAS TAX RALLY.
„« 4:30 Craig Woolard Band starts playing
„« 5:00 Barbeque dinners will be available
„« 6:00 Program will begin with special guest speakers
The rally will take place downtown at the Bicentennial Plaza, which is the pedestrian mall linking Jones and Edenton Streets in downtown Raleigh.
I want YOU and other North Carolinians who care about government to join us. This is the day the politicians come back to session, and we want to show them just how strong we are.
To RSVP for this free event, go to www.gastaxrally.com and as always; you can go to www.stopthegastaxhike.com and sign the petition.
We are going into the summer driving season, and the politicians are taking away your vacation money through unnecessarily high gas taxes. Over 52,000 of us have signed the petition asking for relief at the pump. But the tax and spend politicians still aren't listening!
The politicians think we¡¦ll just give up and go away. But they¡¦re wrong¡Kwe¡¦re coming to Raleigh.
Let's stand together for taxpayers and prove to the politicians that WE ARE NOT GOING AWAY.
I look forward to meeting you at the rally in Raleigh on May 9th.
To RSVP for this free event, go to www.gastaxrally.com and as always; you can go to www.stopthegastaxhike.com and sign the petition.
We are going into the summer driving season, and the politicians are taking away your vacation money through unnecessarily high gas taxes. Over 52,000 of us have signed the petition asking for relief at the pump. But the tax and spend politicians still aren't listening!
The politicians think we’ll just give up and go away. But they’re wrong…we’re coming to Raleigh.
Let's stand together for taxpayers and prove to the politicians that WE ARE NOT GOING AWAY.
I look forward to meeting you at the rally in Raleigh on May 9th.
Here is some advice: drive a more efficient car.
Help your country declare energy independence.
Saddam didn't get money to buy his weapons by selling sand amigo.
Uh no. I live in Germany a nation that has a productivity level higher than the US while using 25% less energy per unit of GDP.
So I will agree that your gas tax is obscenely low.
Now Europe has some idiotic policies which I will criticize as strongly as you would, but higher gas prices in the world in which we live makes a lot of sense.
Also you didn't answer my question about where you think Saddam got money to pay for his weapons.
This would have no bearing on gas taxes. Matter of fact, the states would probably raise the tax if people consumed less gasoline.
Help your country declare energy independence.
Easier said than done. But we, being Americans, will get there.
Saddam didn't get money to buy his weapons by selling sand amigo.
Of course not, he had a lot of help from France, Russia, China and Deutschland.
Germany's gas tax is about 200%, and the government keeps raising it when it needs more money, under the ausipices of an "Ökosteuer" (environmental tax).
IIRC, the last time Schröder raised the gas tax, the people said they wouldn't be driving much less or move to more efficient cars. I know that suddenly having to pay the German gas tax didn't make me drive any less or make me buy a more efficient car. I like fairly efficient cars just because I do, not because of the greediness and failed social engineering of politicians.
Of course, the chicken Schröder couldn't just raise it a lot or there would be a revolt, he just raised it a little bit, year-by-year, over several years. Drivers are getting tired of being the Milchkoo for their socialist government.
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NC Ping!
I believe the gas tax is the most appropriate means of paying for transportation infrastructure.
- Cost of collection is virtually nil. Compare to cost of collection of tolls - where cost of collection is upward of 30% of revenue.
- It's fair. You can avoid tolls by living in a part of the state without tolls or by taking back roads.
- It promotes conservation.
If I were king, I would bulldoze every toll plaza and replace the net revenue with an appropriate increase in the gas tax.
And Eini is giving advise, why?????????????????????????????
Looks like we're a lil' ahead in this department, too.
Marking my calendar.
Are you sending out PSAs/news announcements?
Our local news has been on this issue like flies on you-know-what. May I send it to them?
"Are you sending out PSAs/news announcements?"
Yes but at a later date. Feel free to send to your local paper however.
Thank you!
"I live in Germany a nation that has a productivity level higher than the US..."
Hitting the Turkish hash?
Seems like you both got your nationalist panties in a bunch.
Strange reaction if you are all so secure in your superiority. . . .
Gov. Easley also keeps dipping into your Highway Trust Fund, something like $1 billion in the last 4 years for regular government spending.
A flat tax of 17.5 cents on a gallon of gas, plus an additional 7% of the wholesale price. Wild.
You know, I'd prefer you Euros just say thank you and move along. I'd respect you more.
Oh well, the world turns to us when help is needed.
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