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This is more than just another leftist enviro two man 'think taank' policy paper. CAP is the voice of the Dem establishment. Look for people like Warren and Levin to pick this ball up and try to get it on the radar in the Senate. It is the first shot in the battle to get this garbage into the legislative cycle. Watch for momentum to be built over the next few years, using the usual iron triangle spin.
1 posted on 07/11/2014 2:51:20 PM PDT by robowombat
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liberals bent on killing the economy by any means


2 posted on 07/11/2014 2:53:09 PM PDT by drypowder
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When the revolution comes everyone with “progress” in their names will be the first up against the wall.


3 posted on 07/11/2014 2:54:41 PM PDT by thorvaldr
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Americans want watch the Center for American Progress beheaded on YouTube.


4 posted on 07/11/2014 2:55:58 PM PDT by The Toll
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The Center for American Progress is calling for Congress to ditch the federal gas tax in lieu of a system where drivers pay fees for road construction based on how many miles they travel.

The gas tax charges for the number of miles driven. You don't drive, you don't buy gas, you don't pay tax.

6 posted on 07/11/2014 2:56:24 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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Geez, all those poor lefties who bought elcetric cars or hybrids are now going to have to pay anyway.


7 posted on 07/11/2014 2:56:55 PM PDT by umgud (I couldn't understand why the ball kept getting bigger......... then it hit me.)
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Fly-over country?

“We don’t need no stinkin’ Fly-over Country”!

/S


8 posted on 07/11/2014 2:58:39 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ( "For those who have fought for it, Life bears a savor the protected will never know")
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“The law of unintended consequences” bites again.


9 posted on 07/11/2014 2:59:19 PM PDT by sefarkas (Why vote Democrat Lite?)
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Name me ONE thing that the politicians and Government at any level doesn’t tax either directly or indirectly?

Enough I say! These people need to go on a tax diet and live within a reasonable income and budget.


10 posted on 07/11/2014 2:59:34 PM PDT by The Working Man
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I’ve been looking at Kerry Bentivolio’s ROAR act but I’m not sure what to think of it. It sounds like he’s talking about doing away with the highway trust fund and selling highway bonds to each state to take them out of federal control.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B38FezZsDgvbSWlVRGktcVA1NFR1MDJsa2pqclNkckEyM0RJ/edit


14 posted on 07/11/2014 3:03:06 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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This is a direct attack on those who live in rural areas and the exurbs as they must drive on the highways and for longer distances than city people who can use surface streets or mass transit.


15 posted on 07/11/2014 3:04:59 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
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At one time I would have laughed at anyone who thought this could ever happen. Well, I’m not laughing anymore.

Took my grandson for a walk in his stroller, and had the canopy up so he could get some sun. It occurred to me that I wouldn’t be surprised if that someday became illegal.


16 posted on 07/11/2014 3:05:37 PM PDT by jonathonandjennifer
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These people are REALLY asking for it.


17 posted on 07/11/2014 3:09:09 PM PDT by Bullish (You ever notice that liberalism really just amounts to anti-morality?)
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Beward toll roads and mileage taxes.

Your ability to travel is at stake here.

These people will not be happy until they charge you enough you’ll give up your vehicle.

I don’t think people have any idea how much money is collected in gas taxes. Equally, I doubt they have any idea how much of that money is stolen to pay for other grand Leftist ideas.

It’s time we simply say no, to new taxation.

They get enough. The theft of our buck stops here.


18 posted on 07/11/2014 3:12:36 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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There is enough money for roads. The problem is that the politicians haven’t spent the money on roads.


23 posted on 07/11/2014 3:21:02 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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Leftist trojan but actually how roads should have been funded all along; fuel taxes don’t accurately reflect usage or road wear.


25 posted on 07/11/2014 3:22:58 PM PDT by Squawk 8888 (Lacrosse- Canada's national sport, like hockey only violent)
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Need to find a way to tax leftism. Budget deficits would disappear for a long time.

They could just raise the gas tax, but they don’t want to call it that anymore. People get mad when they can see the price.


30 posted on 07/11/2014 3:31:30 PM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (HELL, NO! BE UNGOVERNABLE! --- ISLAM DELENDA EST)
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Typical liberal BS. First, they want us to drive fuel efficient cars “for the environment” and then they scratch their heads we people do and buy less gallons of fuel that is taxed.

So to maintain their greedy worthless asses in taxpayer funded salaries until they die they come up with another idea. They are never happy and then accuse conservatives of the same (Obama’s border speech when he said “we built their fence, do they want a moat? Alligators in the moat?” which are all lies).

Reminds me when we used paper sacks for groceries and the liberal whiners wanted us to shift to plastic to “save the trees” and now whine about plastics and demand we use cloth bags. Then they’ll find something wrong with those (bacteria for sure) and ‘demand’ we use something else. I’d bet good money it will be back to paper. Post consumer of course!

I truly hate liberals and wish they all just died.


34 posted on 07/11/2014 3:53:30 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Conservatives are all that's left to defend the Constitution. Dems hate it, and Repubs don't care.)
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Change the CAP description to Marxist leftist two man think tank. Actually the Soros funded CAP has scores, if not hundreds of serious marxists/socialists on their staff/as Fellows, including (past and present, Morton Halperin, Robert Borosage (IPS), and Van Jones.

They are as dangerous a marxist think tank cancer as is the older Institute for Policy Studies from which Borosage and many other CAPers came from.


37 posted on 07/11/2014 4:09:34 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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The solution is so obvious, just tax the rich.


39 posted on 07/11/2014 4:17:31 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Luke 12;32)
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