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AllTooEasy

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12. BULLSHIT. Raising the gas tax affects the lowest incomes the most.

Reply to EarlG (Original post)

Wed Nov 4, 2015, 05:00 PM

Nov 2015

Most Americans from all economic backgrounds drive to work, and probably from the same distances. An increased gas tax will produce higher relative pain to lower incomes than higher incomes. I thought DU was against that.

Plus gas prices aren't going to stay low. Every time gas prices plunge, some DUers/liberals/progressives with short attention spans call for increased gas taxes to raise the pump price right up again...as if oil prices will never go back up. WTF?!

How about raising income taxes on higher earners? Or raising sales taxes on new cars with low mpg(<25,20,15,etc.)?

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Pic Of The Moment: The Republican Plan To Fund Highways [View all] EarlG Nov 2015 OP

First rec! SoapBox Nov 2015 #1

A doubling of the federal tax for highway improvement is long overdue as gas prices plunge, Fred Sanders Nov 2015 #2

This will hurt business, think of UPS, FedEx, trucking, sanitation Cosmic Kitten Nov 2015 #3

Now that you mention it, an additional Big Business and big-user fossil fuel surtax would seem in Fred Sanders Nov 2015 #4

We already pay a fuel surtax on large deliveries Cosmic Kitten Nov 2015 #5

"Higher taxes cost jobs" mindwalker_i Nov 2015 #6

That would be a more persuasive argument... malthaussen Nov 2015 #7

Yeah, all those Camrys, Accords, and Priuses(probably wrong plural form) sure hurting... AllTooEasy Nov 2015 #11

Hell, why stop there, Amimnoch Nov 2015 #8

umm you say that as though it hasn't already happened?(by proxy at least) n/t w0nderer Nov 2015 #14

And this is the Paul Ryan model going forward................ turbinetree Nov 2015 #9

Let us not forget. Half-Century Man Nov 2015 #10

BULLSHIT. Raising the gas tax affects the lowest incomes the most. AllTooEasy Nov 2015 #12

Gas tax is a change shaker policy. Ed Suspicious Nov 2015 #13

Merging state power with corporate greed meets the definition of ... fascism. Faryn Balyncd Nov 2015 #15

DON'T VOTE hourglass1 Nov 2015 #16

Like the IRS Diremoon Nov 2015 #17

It would figure that Republicans would want to go with yuiyoshida Nov 2015 #18

Screw and Beat Up Poor American Taxpayers; American Corporations Are Global Players-F**k America. DhhD Nov 2015 #19