We’re raising taxes on the people least able to pay it, and clapping about it. - virtually every single Dem press conference.
And you just know in the back of their mind, they’re cursing Trump, because this plan would have been 40 cents a gallon on $5 gas if Hillary had been in office and shut down US oil production and gotten us into that long war in Syria.
Part of the Dem base (especially in the NYC metro area, but I suspect this is the case in many urban pockets) are pedestrians reliant on public transportation. While NYC increases mass transit fares, they also instituted a “fair fare” program so lower-income commuters pay less. They’ve injected socialism into mass transit...
“....because this plan would have been 40 cents a gallon on $5 gas....”
This has nothing to do with federal politics. That bridge was allowed to go un-repaired long ago as gas taxes by locals have gotten clear out of hand just like this one. This is state level. And using that excuse just re-emphasizes the level of intelligence their voters contain. Hard to feed a family when you can’t get to work but I guess they can all be hungry together.
I live in Washington State, highly controlled liberal. The national average state and local gasoline tax rate as of January 2019 is 30.3¢ per gallon, which is 2¢ higher than was reported in January 2018. Washington’s 49.5¢ tax rate is similar to states with traffic congestion like California 54.4¢, Florida 42.0¢, New York 44.1¢. It is already a goldmine for these states and they are not willing to get caught equal to anyone, so if Virginia goes up, we will, too. And the funds extracted from this are not nearly all going to highway funds. It’s going into a general fund so they can spend it on things like cement apartments so drug users can shoot up “in safety.” They are even using it to purchase a hotel to quarantine flu victims. Course by the time they get it into working order, the plague will be under control and the state will own a white elephant. Typical liberal reaction. And the thing is being purchasd right in the middle of liberal control central for the state, King County. So they put a sanitarium for an infectious disease right in the middle of the most populated location in the state. And they wonder why their logo is a jackass.
rwood