Posted on 01/09/2015 4:13:04 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
After seeing a 100 percent increase, and more, over the past few years.
Only "record low" for the period of the 0bama regime. Gas was $1.50 when the kenyan commie came to power.
And where is the "momentum" for higher taxes coming from? I seriously doubt it is coming from those that pay the taxes. Most likely from the leeches that form the "dem core constituents" who pay NO taxes. Gas prices won't be low forever and when they go back up, the taxes won't go away.
This doesn't even make any sense. Lower gas prices mean that people will travel more and many will purchase vehicles that use more fuel. That equates to more taxes collected.
I could see a tax on electric cars to compensate for what they aren't paying in fuel taxes. If that isn't done, those driving traditional vehicles are subsidizing highway costs for them.
I’d settle for useless. This is a literal knife in the back.
I’m not so sure raising the gas tax is such a bad idea, as the alternative seems to be GPS Tracking for the purpose of road pricing (i.e., variable-rate tolling).
We DEFINITELY will be getting one or the other...in Texas now, it’s pretty much the second. We don’t “officially” have tracking, but half of our cars have transponders (for toll roads) and the state has readers for those transponders on EVERY HIGHWAY now (including all of the freeways), so you can’t get too far without landing in a searchable database.
“Americans for Tax Reform said it is still opposed to the idea of increasing the gas tax, despite the recent decline in fuel prices.”
Irrelevant. Gas is taxed at 18.4 cents a gallon whether a gallon costs 3 dollars or 1 dollar. If anything, taxes should be lowered since as prices go down, the tax takes a larger chunk away from oil companies, in effect coating jobs.
See this is why the Republicans are a joke. They no longer believe in low taxes too.
“If anything, taxes should be lowered since as prices go down, the tax takes a larger chunk away from oil companies, in effect coating jobs.”
The thing is that the Dems (with a lot of Republican help) might just do that...taking it a step further, and simply replace the gas tax with road pricing...or maybe give the states the right to road price...and many states would just LOVE IT.
My family buys about 1,000 gallons of gas a year - my entire federal gas tax is under $200. If they use road pricing Texas will be able to easily increase my cost of driving to $2,000...and I’ll still drive, because there aren’t many options.
But a lot of people on our side will be happy...because there will be “no more gas tax”.
TN RINO gov wants the state of TN to do the same.
GIVE ME A BREAK we have enough crappy poorly planned medians, speed bumps, and wild flowers along the Freeways to last a life time that could be halted, same goes for Welcome Centers. We don’t need new ones.
In rural areas we can’t even get a stinking pot hole fixed, much less a rough road. Memphis and Nashville get the biggest chunk of the $$.
Good grief! Let’s not cut SPENDING! Just reach for yet another revenue stream.
Monumental fiscal mismanagement.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, “There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the rats and the gopee.”
Anyone who thinks that conservatives can work within the gopee, has his/her head so far up their rectum that they can barely breathe.
Because prices will NEVER go up again, right?
Well we all just put the GOP back in power and the first thing they do is raise taxes. Why aren’t they putting the Bush tax cuts back into effect?
And, when gas prices are on the rise, just how quickly will those in gov’t propose, and PASS, a REDUCTION in said taxes instead?
Yeah, not holding my breath either. It’s always ‘We need more.’, it’s never ‘We’ll do with less.’
The GOP is very rarely useful.
They are actually better when they are just barely in the minority, except when it comes to judicial confirmation (that’s the one time it really helps- when there is a GOP POTUS that is).
In the minority they can afford to be against tax increases blah blah blah.
But when push comes to shove and they are in power, they will always fund the beast.
They have proven it every time, and it won’t change unless States literally seize power back from them. The only other alternative is revolution.
Oooooohhhhhhhh, in a thoughtful way! Well then it’s ok.
Geez. This Nation is in the crapper no matter who is in power.
How come we have to do it all over again so soon?
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