I see that the WaPo is also out there calling for increased taxes. It's sad. But I'm glad that they're emboldened to make their biases so well known. It'll help us defeat them.
That’s going to help drive up demand and get the economy running!
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Yeah I don’t see the logic there either.
Stupid seems to be contagious after the Obama-dama-ding-dong victory...
No the idea of increasing fuel taxes now is to extend the tentacles of control around one more vanishing American freedom. The "predictability" vanishes as soon as another party takes political power.
This writer is worried about "predictability" when the country is going into the severest recession since 1932. There is no more vicious tax on the American economy than the gasoline tax which rips through the economy raising costs everywhere, costing jobs everywhere, prolonging the recession and even extending it into a deep recession or even a depression.
To the contrary, we should be drilling every place there is a prospect of finding something oily. The price of gasoline should be driven down as low through domestic production as possible thus bankrupting our enemies and funding our own economy by building jobs at home and keeping those petrodollars at home. Raising the tax will not bankrupt our enemies -because there is an absolute floor below which we cannot function as a civilization without gasoline- but it will bankrupt our economy.
The transfer from gasoline to non-carbon-based energy will come quite naturally when the technology makes it cheaper. We do not have the economic muscle to waste subsidizing that which is uneconomic.
It will only help defeat them if the Stupid Party (a) doesn't sign on to the tax increases in the first place, and (b) hammers the RATS unmercifully when they are put in place. I can just see, though, another bailout-type group photo with Republicans standing respectfully behind their RAT masters when they announce the increased taxes.
Yesterday in DUmmie land they were all entertaining the idea of raising gas taxes.
Sure our economy would tank and Americans would suffer, but its for the “Greater good of the World!”
Pound Sand AH.....
I would very much like to see Obama go ahead with his gas tax proposal. He didn’t seem too upset when the price went to four bucks a gallon. I know some idiots at work who firmly believed Bush called the oil companies to set the price. How will they react when their hero (they’re all big Obama worshippers) raises the price artificially? Will The Anointed One’s halo be tarnished?