I think your concern about taxes on gasoline are real. The gov’t gets a big chunk....a lot more than the gas station gets.
And I’m not impressed that the liberals always want a “windfall profits tax.” What in the world good does that do for John Q. American in terms of gas prices?
Washington Fat Cats get extra taxes because I pay more at the pump....heck...that’d make Washington want to keep prices high all the time, so they could always get their extra taxes.
Washington gets the same amount of taxes per gallon no matter what the price. Now, if they wanted to collect more total taxes, just lower the price of a gallon of gas and people will consume more gallons and generate more taxes.
“Washington Fat Cats get extra taxes because I pay more at the pump....heck...that’d make Washington want to keep prices high all the time, so they could always get their extra taxes”
Thank you! Have been pointing that out for a couple of years.
But of course the only investigating that is ever done is for “gouging” by the oil companies.
Ask yourselves people who has the MOST to gain from keeping prices high?
Could it be - I don’t know - GOVERNMENT - that taxes at percentage of the selling price? Think about it.