[Egg]

People who use roads and bridges should pay for that use.

They already do.

Instead of baselessy drumming on about a supposed "need" for a gas tax increase for roads, why don't you factually demonstrate why every state in the country must have an additional $1 per gallon of gas from the pockets of the working class?

People who rely on our military to keep fuel coming for them to use should pay for that defense.

Since we're both advocating policy, how about this: drill here, and pull our troops out of Saudia Arabia, Qatar, etc. and let Exxon, BP, etc provide their own protection services for their employees instead of using our troops for the job. We'll save money and be less dependent on the decisions of muslim sheiks.

[Aroostook25]

Since we're both advocating policy, how about this: drill here, and pull our troops out of Saudia Arabia, Qatar, etc. and let Exxon, BP, etc provide their own protection services for their employees instead of using our troops for the job. We'll save money and be less dependent on the decisions of muslim sheiks.

Good suggestion to make those corporations pay for their own defense! But that would also result in such corporations invading, for instance, Nigeria or Mexico, taking it over and running it as a company country. Hmmm... shades of British empire for British corporations. Can we trust those corporations having their own armies, air forces, and navies -- or they contract with the US military?