Gas Tax Holiday
The presidential candidates are taking jabs at each other over their stance on whether to eliminate the federal gas tax this summer. That would immediately lower gas prices by $.184/gallon. Obama and other economists say that this will not solve the problem. No, this will not solve the problem of high gas prices. But I'm not looking for the government to provide a solution, I'm looking for the government to provide relief, and this tax would be a good place to start.
Gov. Rendell and the state of Pennsylvania also need to adopt the gas tax holiday as a means of providing relief for it's citizens. The PA gas tax is $.267/gallon. If both the federal and state governments would remove the gas tax, that would be a $.451/gallon savings, which would bring the $3.69/gallon that I paid today down to $3.24/gallon. The price of an average 10-gallon tank fill-up would be $4.51 less.
Lowering the price of gas by $.451/gallon will not solve the problem of high gas prices, but who could better use the $20-$50 that you would save a month? The government that spent over $18 billion on earmarks last year, or you and your family?
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Drummerjack-
We know that times are tough in the backward little hamlet known as PLUM, but is your educational system actually failing you to this extreme degree. Drum Drum...You do know that the gasoline tax provides the funding for road construction and improvements, right? Or, perhaps you did not realize that as your quaint village known as PLUM has yet to inure the benefits of concrete and asphault roads. Your 1982 pick up trucks, adorned with "General Contractor" signs, still manuver the dirt and gravel roads of your borough (or is it boro; or burah; or burro)? I vote for burro, but you must speak spanish to understand that one. You all are burros in PLUM. Do any of you know what a "General Contractor" is? I doubt it because I find it highly improbable that so many of you are actually "General Contractors." Oh yeah...the gas tax. At the end of the summer, after no construction or maintenance has been performed on PLUM'S two lane carriage trails...will you please return to this forum to post your very enlightening thoughts??? Will you Please???
Yes, I do know that the gas tax is used to fund road construction and improvements. Yet, even with all that tax money, the roads are still a problem. My point is that local, state and federal governments continue to spend wastefully. Billions of dollars of my money are being wasted every year on your liberal government programs. If government spending was brought under control, we wouldn't need gas taxes, cell phone taxes, poured drink taxes, rental car taxes, occupational privilege taxes, cigarette taxes or any of the other nickel & diming us to death taxes and constantly increasing "fees" that are being put upon hard working citizens. We need a government that isn't constantly searching for ways to increase their revenue, but a government constantly searching for ways to save money, increase efficiency and unburden the taxpayers.
Liberals, or progressives as you like to call yourself (socialists are what you really are), believe that you know better how to spend my hard-earned money than I do. If you let Americans, such as the ones who live "in the backward little hamlet known as Plum," keep their money, they'll just go out and buy an HDTV or a new car or a bigger house. Your personal attacks demonstrate the liberal belief that average Americans are not intellectual enough to spend their own money. Don't they know that there are people starving in this world? Don't they know that there are Americans who are homeless? So, to save me from myself, you believe the government should collect all my money and redistribute it as you see fit.
Did you know that April 23 was tax freedom day? That means that from January through April 23 on all those mornings when you went to work fighting the weather and traffic and busted your butt for eight hours, not one penny of that money you earned went to you or your family. I think the government could survive a gas tax holiday.