I have to be the first to say: What a Dingell-berry!
A $5 tax on cigars and a 50 cent a gallon tax hike on gasoline. This is outrageous. Especially when all the country needs is a good 5 cent cigar and a place to smoke it.
This old relic and his ancient ideas needs to be put out to pasture. He is a menace to society.
This is the absolute crux of the problem.
Yep - because that’ll certainly bring gas prices down, won’t it. The pundits were right - the DemoRATS will now be using the Global Warming Chicken Little Umbrella in order to institute new taxes “for our own good.” Trouble is, of course, that everyone’s getting sick of both the global warming mantra in general and these idiot Dems in Congress in particular. We were warned they’d raise taxes and OH LOOK! They are.
How about before we soak Joe Middle Class with a huge tax increase, let’s first cut entitlement spending by 50% and cut Congressional salaries by 50%. Do that first, then we’ll talk about a gas tax increase.
The moronic Michigan Democrats have returned this guy to Congress 26 times (and, really, 37 times) - despite the fact that he lives in a UAW district where a gas tax would be yet another blow at one of MI’s few remaining large employers.
I think the war on poverty should remind everyone that they have no freaking clue what they're doing and the money won't make one damn bit of difference.
Another aspect of his proposal that could adversely affect the economy enormously is later in the story...
“—Phaseout of the interest tax deduction on home mortgages for homes over 3,000 square feet. Owners would keep most of the deduction for homes at the lower end of the scale, but it would be eliminated entirely for homes of 4,200 feet or more.
He estimates that would affect 10 percent of homeowners. He says “it’s only fair” to tax those who buy large suburban houses and create urban sprawl. Historic and farm houses would be exempted.”
same story here
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1903026/posts
“the pain is shared in a way that is fair, proper, acceptable and accomplishes the basic purpose”
This sort of tax is regressive. It has the greatest impact on the rural poor. They usually have long distances to travel for work, etc. They usually have no other alternative form of transportation. They usually are already paying the greatest cost for gas because they are subsidizing competitive pricing in urban areas.
This has a compound effect on the viability of local businesses in rural areas that cannot compete with other areas and countries because the cost of transporting the raw materials they produce becomes a limiting factor. Also, agriculture and timber indistries are large comsumers of oil products (diesel and fertilizers) and the tax, unless they are exempted, could raise the costs of inputs into their business. This could raise the cost of domestic food and wood products or render them non-competitive with foreign producers. It also creates greater input costs for the production of alternative fuels such as biomass and ethanol.
Bad urban idea.
This will be one of the issues that will doom the Democrats. If Republicans are stupid and don’t take a firm stand against the Global warming foolishness they will be passing up a sure fire way to drive a wedge between the public and the Democrats desire for new taxes.
I’d be repeating a simple mantra, “Democrats think you aren’t paying enough for gasoline.” “Raise your hand if you think you don’t pay enough taxes or enough for your gasoline?”. It should be cast in terms of food and milk for babies. Tell the people in the crowds that you aren’t going to stand by while the carbon taxes and gasoline taxes raise the cost of groceries. I’d also put together a whole slew of simple effective phrases that will continually cast doubt in the mind of the public where the silly claims and fears of global warming are concerned. Make it a fight. People will have a propensity to not want to believe anything that will raise their taxes and cost of gasoline. Don’t let the left get away with this big lie.
What is the cure for Dingell?
Good luck Buckwheat!
Needed to save the Republic from these damned lifetime political careerists.
Damn them all!
You know, if we can’t turn this into a winning issue, there’s no hope left for the country.
He can KISS my ***, I don’t get ANYTHING back by supposedly “reducing Global warming”. THis is just another liberal-spendthrift policy (probably to pay for another bloated government program).
Fine. I have an idea. Resign fro the political trough and go back to where you came from and get a real job and pay for your own perks and maybe you'll get a clue how it feels to have a bunch of cavalier clowns like you pissing our money away faster than we can earn it