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Charles Krauthhammer: The Case for a Revenue-Neutral Gas Tax (. . . and a Social Security-tax cut)
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| 01/09/2015
| Charles Krauthhammer
Posted on 01/09/2015 8:10:11 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Krauthammer...still drunk on the wine from George Will’s dinner party love-in with Obama in 2009.
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posted on
01/09/2015 8:36:39 AM PST
by
Dahoser
(Separation of church and state? No, we need separation of media and state.)
To: Beagle8U
“D.C. Chuck” wouldn’t even think of this, as you well know.
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posted on
01/09/2015 8:38:13 AM PST
by
stephenjohnbanker
(Batting average 1,000 (GOPe is that easy to read))
To: SeekAndFind
I wish Kraphammer would just stuff it. I have had it with his psoturing on FOX as though he was a conservative, when every once in a while like here and with the Second Amendment he demonstrates that his Democrat Roots were never removed.
He is just another RINO. SMarter than most, but a RINO nonetheless.
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posted on
01/09/2015 8:40:58 AM PST
by
ZULU
(Quo usque tandem abutere Obama patientia nostra? . Cicero, First Oration against Cataline)
To: SeekAndFind
I do not approve of social engineering through tax law. Taxes should be for revenue only, and free Americans should be free to decide how to spend their money and their time without coercion or incentives. Tax incentives are invariably corrupted and inefficient.
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posted on
01/09/2015 8:43:23 AM PST
by
Pollster1
("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
To: SeekAndFind
Yet another policy from our political elite that hammers the middle class worker.
To: SeekAndFind
Much better would be a tariff on incoming foreign oil and refined products. This helps support our oil and natgas producers and the frackers,
$10-$20 per barrel tariff would be good
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posted on
01/09/2015 8:46:15 AM PST
by
dennisw
(The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
To: SeekAndFind
Screw the “average” American. I drive 1,100 miles per week and $1 a gallon increase would be roughly $40 per week for me while my taxes have gone up on everything else, my insurance cost has gone up, the cost of food and everything has gone up. When and only when I have a federal government that does only it’s constitutionally defined job and nothing more would I consider supporting any tax increases on anything. I watch sound barriers going up along interstates to protect sub divisions that were built after the interstate and I know that money is coming out of my taxes, I watch rails to trails being built and a handful of people using it that came out of my taxes, I watch public transportation where the any given bus has 3 passengers at any given time and hear talk about if they only had more tax money they could expand the bus routes, screw them all.
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posted on
01/09/2015 8:46:38 AM PST
by
mikesmad
To: stephenjohnbanker
Lots of people drive over 100 miles to/from work every day, that’s 600 or more miles a week just going to work.
Krautharmer is a dumba$$ when it comes to anything that isn’t urban.
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posted on
01/09/2015 8:47:05 AM PST
by
Beagle8U
(NOTICE : Unattended children will be given Coffee and a Free Puppy.)
To: SeekAndFind
Still a liberal
Just a hawk on Israel and foreign policy
Which describes quite a few 1950-1990 Democrats
Does not make a Goldwater
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posted on
01/09/2015 8:48:44 AM PST
by
wardaddy
(glenn beck is a nauseous politically correct conservative on LSD)
To: Beagle8U
“Lots of people drive over 100 miles to/from work every day, “
I drove 120 miles a day for many years.
” Krautharmer is a dumba$$ when it comes to anything that isnt urban.”
He and George Will oughta get married....it’s legal now : )
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posted on
01/09/2015 8:54:25 AM PST
by
stephenjohnbanker
(Batting average 1,000 (GOPe is that easy to read))
To: wardaddy
” Still a liberal
Just a hawk on Israel and foreign policy”
Nailed him. Also an amnesty traitor.
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posted on
01/09/2015 8:55:37 AM PST
by
stephenjohnbanker
(Batting average 1,000 (GOPe is that easy to read))
To: SeekAndFind
Argh. Posters here have a reflexive hatred of essentially everything.
If conservatives want to be empowered to govern, they must make an affirmative case for ... well ... something. It is not enough to be against everything. I can go so far as to respect those who say that they cannot vote for, say, Mitt Romney or Jeb Bush. It makes me said, because I think it sets back the conservative cause. Once true conservative opt out, why should anyone be surprised to be ignored or even maligned? It becomes a vicious circle. But ... at least I can respect the decision and agree to disagree on how to respond to politicians who are not sufficiently conservative.
But when folks say that they can discern no difference between Charles Krauthammer and, let’s say, Van Jones, well then I can’t take that person seriously. Surely you don’t believe that there is no difference.
I have a question ... Suppose I were to take Charles Krauthammer’s position as a reasonable starting point but adapted it as follows:
1. First, don’t lead with our chins. It is the Democrats that are all in for a carbon tax. Republicans favor a tax on the international petro dollars that fuel and fund much of the world’s evil; but there are other ways to tackle this evil. We should instead ask Dems, if you want $1/gallon tax on gasoline, what are you prepared to give up? And revenue neutrality is not nearly enough.
2. If Republicans agree to such a tax, then ALL gas tax revenues must go toward infrastructure improvements (and not just the incremental taxes raised). For too long the trust funds that have been set aside and cordoned off for gas tax revenue and infrastructure improvements have been raided for entirely unrelated purposes. A non-negotiable position is that the gas taxes all go toward infrastructure, as the law says they must. Enforce the law!
3. We insist upon SPENDING neutrality. Because the gas tax revenues will be spent on infrastructure improvements, the only way to keep the size of government from rising is to reduce other expenditures $1 for $1.
Instead of the reflexive reaction “CK is a Marxist,” I am asking if there could be some more affirmative response. I am not saying that my adaptations would make this 100% acceptable to those who post on Free Republic. But what I do want to suggest is that CK is on the right track in principle — let’s raise the tax on foreign petro dollars — and that I can adapt his positions and advocate for the idea but with my own adaptations in place of his not-so-appealing details.
Would that hold any appeal to anyone here?
To: drellberg
Did I just hear someone say more taxes? Hmm.
- Accounts Receivable Tax
- Accumulated Earnings Tax
- Accumulation Distribution of Trusts
- Activity Fee (Dumping Permit Fee)
- Air Tax (PA coin-operated vacuums)
- Aircraft Jet Fuel Tax
- Aircraft Excise Tax
- Alcohol Fuels Tax
- Alcoholic Beverage Tax
- Alternative Minimum Tax - Amt
- Ambulance Services (Air Ambulance Services, SD)
- Ammunition Tax
- Amusement Tax (MA, VA, MD)
- Annual Custodial Fees (Ira Accounts)
- Ballast Water Management Fee (Marine Invasive Species)
- Biodiesel Fuel Tax
- Blueberry Tax (Maine)
- Bribe Taxes (Pay If You Dare)
- Brothel licensing fees (NV - $35,000.00 per year per brothel)
- Building Permit Tax
- Capital Gains Tax
- California Interstate User Diesel Fuel Tax
- California Redemption Value (Can and Bottle Tax)
- CDL License Tax
- Charter Boat Captain License
- Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Fee
- Cigarette Tax
- Cigarette Tax Stamp (Acts) (Distributors)
- Compressed Natural Gas Tax
- Commercial Activity Tax (OH - for Service Providers)
- Corporate Income Tax
- Court Fines (Indirect Taxes)
- Disposable Diapers Tax (Wisconsin)
- Disposal Fee (Any Landfill Dumping)
- Dog License Tax
- Electronic Waste Recycling Fee (E-Waste)
- Emergency Telephone User Surcharge
- Environmental Fee
- Estate Tax (Death Tax, to be reinstated)
- Excise Taxes
- Facility Fee (CA - HazMat Fees)
- FDIC tax (insurance premium on bank deposits)
- Federal Income Tax
- Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
- Fiduciary Income Tax (Estates and Trusts)
- Fishing License Tax
- Flush Tax (MD Tax For Producing Wastewater)
- Food License Tax
- Fountain Soda Drink Tax (Chicago - 9%)
- Franchise Tax
- Fresh Fruit (CA, if Purchased From A Vending Machine)
- Fuel Permit Tax
- Fur Clothing Tax (MN)
- Garbage Tax
- Gasoline Tax (44.75 Cents Per Gallon)
- Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax
- Generator Fee (Recycled Waste Fee)
- Gift Tax
- Gross Receipts Tax
- Hamburger Tax
- Hazardous Substances Fees: Generator, Facility, Disposal
- Household Employment Taxes
- Hunting License Tax
- Illegal Drug Possession (No. Carolina)
- Inheritance Tax
- Insect Control Hazardous Materials License
- Insurance Premium Tax
- Intangible Tax (Leases Of Govt. Owned Real Property)
- Integrated Waste Management Fee
- Interstate User Diesel Fuel Tax
- Inventory Tax
- IRA Rollover Tax (a transfer of IRA money)
- IRA Early Withdrawal Tax
- IRS Interest Charges
- IRS Penalties (Tax On Top Of Tax)
- Jock Tax (income earned by athletes in some states)
- Kerosene, Distillate, & Stove Oil Taxes
- Kiddie Tax (Child's Earned Interest Form 8615)
- Lead Poisoning Prevention Fee (Occupational)
- Lease Severance Tax
- Liquid Natural Gas Tax
- Liquid Petroleum Gas Tax
- Liquor Tax
- Litigation Tax (TN Imposes Varies With the Offense)
- LLC/PLLC Registration Tax
- Local Income Tax
- Lodging Taxes
- Lump-Sum Distributions
- Make-Up Tax (Ohio, applying in a salon is taxable)
- Marriage License Tax
- Meal Tax
- Medicare Tax
- Mello-Roos Taxes (Special Taxes and Assessments)
- Minnow Dealers License (Retail - For One Shop)
- Minnow Dealers License (Distributor - For One+ Shops)
- Mobile Home Ad Valorem Taxes
- Motor Fuel Tax (For Suppliers)
- Music and Dramatic Performing Rights Tax
- Nudity Tax (Utah)
- Occupation Tax (Various Professional Fees)
- Oil and Gas Assessment Tax
- Oil Spill Response, Prevention, And Administration Fee
- Pass-Through Withholding
- Pay-Phone Calls Tax (Indiana)
- Personal Property Tax
- Personal Holding Company (undistributed earnings)
- Pest Control License
- Petroleum Business Tax
- Playing Card Tax (Al)
- Pole Tax (TX - A $5 Cover Charge On Strip Clubs)
- Profit from Illegal Drug Dealing
- Property Tax
- Prostitution Tax (NV - Prostitute Work Permits)
- Rain Water Tax (Runoff after a Storm)
- Real Estate Tax
- Recreational Vehicle Tax
- Road Usage Tax
- Room Tax (Hotel Rooms)
- Sales Tax (State)
- Sales Tax (City)
- Sales And Use Tax (Sellers Permit)
- Sales And Use Surcharge (electric)
- School Tax
- Scrap Tire Recycling Charge
- Service Charge Tax
- Self Employment Tax
- Sex Sales Tax (UT, when nude people perform services)
- Sewer & Water Tax
- Social Security Tax
- Sparkler and Novelties Tax (WV Sellers of Sparklers, etc.)
- Special Assessment Tax (Not Ad Valorem)
- State Documentary Stamp Tax on Notes (FL RE Tax)
- State Franchise Tax
- State Income Tax
- State/Local Consumption Tax
- State Park Fees
- State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
- Straight Vegetable Oil (SVO) Fuel Tax
- Stud Fees (Kentucky's Thoroughbred Sex Tax)
- Tangible Personal Property Tax
- Tattoo Tax (AR Tax On Tattoos)
- Telephone Federal Excise Tax
- Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
- Telephone Federal Surcharge Taxes
- Telephone State Surcharge Taxes
- Telephone Local Surcharge Taxes
- Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
- Telephone Recurring Charges Tax
- Telephone Non-Recurring Charges Tax
- Telephone State Usage Charge Tax
- Telephone Local Usage Charge Tax
- Tire Recycling Fee
- Tobacco Tax (Cigar, Pipe, Consumer Tax)
- Tobacco Tax (Cigar, Pipe, Dealer Tax)
- Toll Road Tax
- Toll Bridge Tax
- Toll Tunnel Tax
- Tourism or Concession License Fee
- Traffic Fines (Indirect Taxation)
- Transportable Treatment Unit Fee (Small Facility)
- Trailer Registration Tax
- Trout Stamp (Addendum To Fish License)
- Use Taxes (On Out-Of-State Purchases)
- Utility Taxes
- Unemployment Tax
- Underground Storage Tank Maintenance Fee
- Underpayment of Estimated Tax (Form 2210)
- Unreported Tip Income (Social Security and Medicare Tax)
- Vehicle License
- Volumetric Franchise Tax
- Registration Tax
- Vehicle Sales Tax
- Wagering Tax (Tax on Gambling Winnings)
- Waste Vegetable Oil (WVO) Fuel Tax
- Water Rights Fee
- Watercraft Registration Tax
- Waterfowl Stamp Tax
- Well Permit Tax
- Workers Compensation Tax
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posted on
01/09/2015 9:03:29 AM PST
by
tenger
(It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for. -Will Rogers)
To: SeekAndFind
Kraut-man is wrong on that one. Raising fuel costs impacts the poorest most, as it increases the price on everything transported and upon travel to work.
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posted on
01/09/2015 9:05:36 AM PST
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
"Doing it this way will guarantee that politicians continue to strive to keep the price of gasoline and diesel as low as possible."They have that incentive today. Since the government makes 18.4 cents per gallon independent of the price, the lower the pump price, the more gasoline used, the more the government makes.
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posted on
01/09/2015 9:09:03 AM PST
by
offwhite
To: SeekAndFind
Sounds like a financial rope-a-dope.
Don’t things matter, Charles?
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posted on
01/09/2015 9:10:49 AM PST
by
exit82
("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
To: offwhite
American oil companies actually own very little of the oil they refine and distribute. Most is purchased wholesale from frackers or overseas.
They have become little more than government tax collectors. The excise taxes and gas taxes swamp their profit margins by almost an order of magnitude.
Same way with tobacco companies.
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posted on
01/09/2015 9:15:52 AM PST
by
Gideon7
To: tenger
My favorite stupid tax was the Undistributed Profits Tax (UPT) of 1936. FDR was peeved at the ‘greedy’ corporations for hoarding profits and not investing. The reason investment ground to a halt was because of sky-high taxes and the fact that FDR had terrorized American business so badly they gave up.
The UPT was such a disaster that it was repealed in 1939.
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posted on
01/09/2015 9:21:15 AM PST
by
Gideon7
To: tenger
LOL. You didn’t “hear” anything, of course. And if you read what I actually wrote, you would see both that revenue neutrality is not enough ... meaning that I explicitly said FEWER taxes ... and that other concessions would be necessary as well.
In writing what you’ve written, you help to make my case ... that those who post on this site reflexively shout out that everyone and everything is evil.
Truly, I am not the enemy of conservative values. I simply want the good guys to put forward an affirmative case for their positions. Our side can’t govern if our leaders don’t have a concrete agenda.
To: SeekAndFind
This is indeed puzzling.
We need to leave taxes alone and not use them to make winners and losers. For no matter what happens, we becomes losers when there is change. Especially conservatives, who are careful to follow the law and render unto Caesar.
When you change taxes, everyone must pause and adjust. Why? Is it worth it?
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posted on
01/09/2015 9:28:03 AM PST
by
cicero2k
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