All Dems are mentally ill. Look at this great clip of O’Reilly owning Barney Flank for that famous quote about FNM and FRE.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bijtBkKQwY8&feature=related
Everyone spews about how O’Reilly interrupts, but with Blamey Flank, he sputters on and on and on and you HAVE to interrupt him once he gets started.
I am okay with it being considered as an option. Let us make a national referendum vote with the sponsors names clearly displayed during the next election.
I just wonder if gas has kept up with inflation. I remember that in 1995, I could put 10 bucks into the gas tank for 1/2 a tank. Today I pay 20 bucks for the same 1/2 tank. But in 1995, I was paying a buck for milk and today I am paying 2 dollars for milk. So is gas really that much more expensive as anything else. I think gas is just an easy thing to complain about.
Then they’ll just spend it!
If we increase the federal gas tax AND refuse to drill for oil, no one will be driving.
Dunce.
Since when do they use the gas tax money for highways?
How ‘bout a tax on every bill put forward by the politicians on Capitol Hill. I know the politicians wouldn’t mind putting out a little of their own money for that. Kind of a “sponsor” tax.
True. But this week in may 1993 the gas price was $1.106 average across the U.S. This week in 2011 it's $3.849. That's an increase of 248%. An an annualized basis that's an increase of 7.2% which is easily double the rate of inflation. and this is all thanks you you democratic morons policy of no new oil exploration/drilling/pumping. You've done quite enough damage already.
The Dems are nothing but a one trick pony. Raise taxes is all they know. How bout this: CUT SPENDING, CUT SPENDING, CUT SPENDING, CUT SPENDING. And if that doesn’t work CUT SPENDING.
Here’s a crazy idea. We could stop forcing drivers to pay for mass transportation and other crap.
Well if the Feds actually spent gas tax on roads instead of spending it on rail and other things then they would not have to raise gas taxes.
Nick (“I am also a supporter of Hezbollah.”) Rahall? While nominally a Presbyterian, Nicky is of Lebanese descent and chaired the vile “Arab Americans for Obama Campaign” in 2008.
The old bait and switch. Just pay a little more tax and we’ll build you some really nice roads they promise. What they deliver is another department of bureaucrats passing regulations for tire companies to make their products more pot hole proof.
To a Democrat, the solution to every problem is a tax increase.
Bad weather? (raise taxes)
Bad economy? (raise taxes)
Good economy? (raise taxes)
A Comet headed for Earth? (raise taxes)
I’d say yes IF:
1. New judges and lawyers are hired to prosecute all house and senate sleazebags, along with the scum-bag-in-chief for possible felonies.
2. New prisons are constructed (really ugly and uncomfortable ones) are constructed to house them until their execution.
3. I am hired to run the guillotine.
Hmmm, please allow me sufficient time to thoroughly and carefully consider this proposal before giving a response. OK, I’m ready. NO!
The problem with all this is Congress is irresponsible when it comes to financial matters. They’ve had the money and could have made the repairs/upgrades. Instead they spent it on entitlements. Now they want to force us to pay again. I just don’t think so. Too bad this fact is missed by 99% of the voters and 100% of the media.
If this is the case, they should show - TO THE PENNY - how the existing gas taxes have been spent, in order to justify that they are being good stewards of our money.
The Federal transportation expenses from the gasoline tax should be reduced to expenses for the “U.S.” designated highways (they are “interstate”), the Interstate Highway System highways, and bridges and tunnels that span state borders along those highways.
Use of Federal gasoline taxes for any other purpose should be eliminated. Most likely that would mean it should be possible to lower Federal gasoline taxes.
The states will complain, but if they address their own state’s priorities, they can improve the priorities of how their own gasoline taxes are spent, and, if it is truly needed, raise them.
The state parties, Democrat and GOP, run this fiction on their state’s taxpayers. They campaign on keeping the state taxes low and getting gifts from Uncle Sam to help do that; as if, in the end, the money is not coming out of their own taxpayers pockets anyway. It’s a scam.