Simply to point this out....living in Germany....there is a $5 a gallon tax on gas...a 19 percent sales tax, a 25-35 percent income tax, and a 13.5 percent tax for healthcare. Any idiot who thinks a gas tax will cover medical costs...is simply not facing the massive cost of medical coverage for families.
My best friend was one of the civilian housing officers at Ramstein. He told me he could have made a FORTUNE selling the U.S. gas coupons they were issued.
In fact, isn’t the tax per Litre? Which makes it even more oppresssive.
In the United States it is more that a few miles to get to the store in most cases. If you live in a small country a $5.00 tax on a gallon of gasoline that will take you from border to border sounds good. But in this country a gallon of gasoline will not get you out of most cities.