Sunday
20Jul
Gas Prices Too High? Raise Taxes, Says Congress
Sunday, July 20, 2008 at 12:56What a marvelous idea! Congress wants to raise gas taxes. That will help by... er... um... that will... wait a minute... let me think... oh, of course! It will keep the earmark industry running at full speed by taking some of the heat off. That's it.
So Congress is at a 9% approval rating. Do I hear 7%? 5%? Some sort of negative number?
http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/19/news/economy/gastax.ap/index.htm?section=money_topstories
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Wow, that's just...breathtakingly stupid. Of course, Congressmen of both parties are falling in line; we all know that those new highways are just EVER so important. Bleah.
Let's take a year and just fix existing highway problems. One would think that a moratorium on new roads would go a long way toward stretching the current road fund.
Take the feds entirely out of building any road not designated as part of the Eisenhower interstate highway system (military necessity making it constitutional), and this problem goes away. Stop taxing states, wasting a good portion of the money, then sending back the remainder with hundreds of goofy federal mandates attached. It's ludicrous.
Wes, I deliberately didn't mention parties in my post, but since you did, have you noticed that the two tax increase proponents cited, James Oberstar and Peter DeFazio, are Democrats? And that the sane voice quoted, Jim DeMint, is, well, not a Democrat?
they've already shown us their strategy...
make gas so damn expensive everybody has to walk or ride a bike.
(the envirmocratic party strikes again)
how much longer are we really going to put up with this b.s.?
(my guess is as long as people are still stupid enough to vote for 'em)
I'd even quibble with some of the Interstate system, Redbeard; we've build Interstate "corridors" and the like that are little more than job programs for the states.
they wouldn't be ::gasps:: union jobs would they Wes?