Beltway Disease..........no known cure.
Taxation without representation. Gas tax is for gas consumer roads infrastructure, pure and simple. SS is not part of that.
The Establishment has spoken.
That is a great Marxist idea.
Pray America is waking
> The only time you can even think of proposing a gas-tax increase is when oil prices are at rock bottom.
Don’t Gruber us. The gas tax is per gallon, not per dollar. Whether “oil prices are at rock bottom” has nothing to do with it.
Obama is willing to meet you halfway.
1 dollar per gallon tax increase one gasoline.
No offsetting cut in Social Security tax.
Hey. What are you complaining about. HE MET YOU HALFWAY!
Revenue-neutral is not really neutral at all.
No more Taxes, we are Taxed Enough Already!
Dr. Krauthammer is a pretty sharp guy. Hence, it astounds me that he misses the point that taxes are a game for politicians to buy votes and reward their friends. Adding a gas tax will be permanent. Reducing other taxes will be temporary and will never offset the gas tax hike.
I support the idea of a VAT because it rewards frugality. However, we all know that a VAT would not replace income taxes. It would just be more money for the politicians.
Here is an alternative: make the gas tax *regressive*.
The current United States federal excise tax on gasoline is 18.4 cents per gallon and 24.4 cents per gallon for diesel fuel. State taxes vary, see link below.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_taxes_in_the_United_States#State_taxes
So say, if gasoline only costs a dollar, the gas taxes are 40 cents on that dollar.
But if the price of gasoline goes up to two dollars a gallon, the *regressive* gasoline taxes drop to 20 cents on the dollar.
If the price of gasoline goes up to three dollars a gallon, the *regressive* gasoline taxes drop to 10 cents.
And at four dollars a gallon, there are NO federal or state gasoline taxes.
Doing it this way will guarantee that politicians continue to strive to keep the price of gasoline and diesel as low as possible.
Krauthammer is a good Republican like the Republicans of the 50s and 60s who saw themselves as the tax collectors for Democrat spending.
Krauthammer...still drunk on the wine from George Will’s dinner party love-in with Obama in 2009.
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.
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.
Yet another policy from our political elite that hammers the middle class worker.
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
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.
Still a liberal
Just a hawk on Israel and foreign policy
Which describes quite a few 1950-1990 Democrats
Does not make a Goldwater