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Democrats will propose eliminating federal gas taxes for sixty days?
Talk Radio Daily ^

Posted on 04/25/2006 10:59:51 AM PDT by talkradiodaily

Isn't this like Republicans working to grow Federal bureaucracy? Oh, wait. Never mind.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: congressmorons; energy; gasoline; tax
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To: talkradiodaily
Lift the tax? Hmmmm, let me see.

The seller will merely raise the price....reason: if he doesn't, consumption will increase and he won't be able to meet the demand.

41 posted on 04/25/2006 11:25:25 AM PDT by Rapscallion (Liberals: Working for the conquest of America since VietNam.)
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To: talkradiodaily
This will cause unprecedented GOUGING by the station owners and other middle-men.

It will only highlight the high degree of taxes paid when they re-institute the tax.

Day before the tax repeal: $3.109
Day 1 of tax repeal: $2.519
Day after reinstatement:$4.209

Who's kidding whom?

42 posted on 04/25/2006 11:25:47 AM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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To: misterrob

You are correct. Politically it's a great idea. But anything that makes gas more affordable without increasing the supply is a really, really bad idea.


43 posted on 04/25/2006 11:25:50 AM PDT by Trust but Verify (( ))
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To: American_Centurion
When Dems start "helping", you better be watching your backside, because when you bend over they'll give you something you thought only happened in prison.

As in "Back-door Santa Claus"

44 posted on 04/25/2006 11:31:00 AM PDT by Rapscallion (Liberals: Working for the conquest of America since VietNam.)
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To: hosepipe
REALLY smart would be republicans JUMPING ON this band wagon and pushing it down their throats.. and jumping up and down on "it" to pack it in.. And THEN proposing to make it PERMANENT..

Exactly. Almost any tax cut is a good tax cut. If they really want to try to make political hay of this Shove it down their throat.

45 posted on 04/25/2006 11:32:40 AM PDT by Dosa26
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To: talkradiodaily

Will there be any concommitant abatement of the Dhimmi tax as well? I can't say that it's too bright an idea to cut off a source of funding for our government while continuing to fill coffers in Tehran and Buenos Aires.


46 posted on 04/25/2006 11:32:45 AM PDT by kinghorse
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To: talkradiodaily

WHO'S GONNA PAY FOR THIS!!!


47 posted on 04/25/2006 11:33:50 AM PDT by uncitizen
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To: XavierLarry
Small problem with your logic: removing GOVERNMENT-IMPOSED taxes isn't "artificially reducing" prices---it is putting the prices back to where they would NORMALLY BE without such goverment perversions of the market.

GOP ought to get on this one, quick.

48 posted on 04/25/2006 11:36:09 AM PDT by LS
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To: talkradiodaily

so Democrats CREATE the tax on gasoline and then are magnanimous when they REMOVE THE PROBLEM THEY CREATED.

How very big brother of them.


49 posted on 04/25/2006 11:37:04 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Txsleuth

I'm not sure I buy that one. Oilcos will look to maximize total profit so the more that they can push on the market they will if the price is right. The tax credits are going to become more and more unpopular as time goes on. Now, one can say that tax increases get passed on to the consumer but only to a certain point as people will simply curtail their usage patterns.

I agree that profits will go down though.


50 posted on 04/25/2006 11:38:16 AM PDT by misterrob (Death once came calling for Jack Bauer. Death went home to mommy with a wedgie and no lunch money)
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To: talkradiodaily

I love it when they do this. It proves:

1. They don't need the tax revenue.
2. The tax punishes employers and consumers.
3. Lifting taxes spurs the economy.


51 posted on 04/25/2006 11:39:54 AM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Liberals are blind. They are the dupes of Leftists who know exactly what they're doing.)
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To: hosepipe

Ohhh.........that's good..........REALLY good......I would like to see that happen, but our spineless rino's will not be smart enough to do it...


52 posted on 04/25/2006 11:40:58 AM PDT by joe fonebone (When did being white, christian and conservative become a criminal offense?)
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To: misterrob

I really am WAY over my head when talking about this...I just know that I do NOT trust the DEMS...so, there has to be a major catch somewhere....LOL


53 posted on 04/25/2006 11:52:31 AM PDT by Txsleuth (...)
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To: joe fonebone

I would rather open up some federal land to drilling. Increased supply will lower the price and royalties will flow into the treasury.


54 posted on 04/25/2006 11:54:21 AM PDT by Wristpin ("The Yankees announce plan to buy every player in Baseball....")
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To: Onelifetogive

Exactly! The members of OPEC must be delighted with "their" Democrats and Republicans, who have blocked using domestic sources of energy such as ANWR and off shore, and have put on counter-productive "show trials" of oil execs to make the public think they are doing something. Our elected demagogue Congressmorons of both parties are doing a great job, keeping us more dependent on foreign oil than we should be, while they accuse the oil industry of "price gouging". By the way, bottled water in the supermarket is far more expensive than gasoline at the pump.


55 posted on 04/25/2006 11:55:05 AM PDT by pleikumud
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To: montag813
"Good politics by RATs. Matching Bush move for move."

And had Bush and the GOP been shrewd enough to include this with the other measures they proposed for lowering gas prices this morning, they'd have totally run the table on govt. measures that will bring down gas prices and they may well have entirely taken the oil issue away from the Dems. That could have bounced Bush's approval numbers significantly. Instead, Dems. who are masters of stealing the credit and Republicans who are masters of refusing to take any will crow about all they did to bring down gas prices while what Bush proposed will be lost in the muddle.

I was REALLY worried this morning when Bush left the gas tax loose end hanging. This left an opportunity for the Dems. Another boneheaded political mistake by a Republican party that's become almost as addicted to taxation as the Democrats.

Anyway, I guess I'll actually believe it when the Democrats propose it...and when they don't pull some underhanded parliamentary maneuver to kill it and then blame the Republicans.
56 posted on 04/25/2006 12:02:13 PM PDT by MikeA (Not voting in November because you're pouting is a vote for Democratic Congressional control)
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To: talkradiodaily

good. now all they have to do is become anti-illigal-immigrant, pro gun and pro life, and I can switch sides !!


57 posted on 04/25/2006 12:03:31 PM PDT by stompk
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To: joe fonebone
[ Ohhh.........that's good..........REALLY good......I would like to see that happen, but our spineless rino's will not be smart enough to do it... ]

OR would the President sign the bill.. his first VETO...
Bush IS a RINO, you know..

58 posted on 04/25/2006 12:08:36 PM PDT by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole..)
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To: misterrob

"Plus, if they are going to cut taxes then they had damn well better offset the revemue somewhere else."


As Rep. Curt Weldon pointed out yesterday, the offset can come from the vast amounts of Iraqi reconstruction money that's never been used because the Iraqis produced greater oil revenue than expected to pay for their own reconstruction. So the money Congress appropriated is just sitting there unused.

Additionally, more offsets can be had just by gutting the pork out of future transporation budgets which could make a long term suspension of the gas tax a REALLY good thing if it finally puts a stop to the transportation budget being used as a pork barrel sugar daddy.

Finally, I'm not really sure demand has slackened significantly due to the current run up in gas prices. It might over the long term, but I think most people just keep to business as usual while grumbling about gas prices. So I really don't think an 18 cent reduction is going to do anything significant to increase demand and thus prices.


59 posted on 04/25/2006 12:08:53 PM PDT by MikeA (Not voting in November because you're pouting is a vote for Democratic Congressional control)
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To: talkradiodaily

And we could help pay for it by drilling domestically.

ANWR at $75 / barrel

Royalties alone would be $112,500,000,000

Plus taxes, lots and lots of taxes.


60 posted on 04/25/2006 12:19:08 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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