I would like to extend a special ‘thanks’ to Congress for considering the tax they want to place on gasoline to bring it back to $4/gallon. For now, it would be a ‘floating’ tax that would keep the price of gas at $4/gallon no matter what happened to the actual price of gasoline. Presumably, as the price goes down the tax goes up, as the price comes up the tax goes down so the price at the pump stays the same – at $4/gallon. The idea is to force us to conserve gas and get us to buy hybrid cars – that we’re not doing with the price of gas down. American car manufacturers are being forced to produce hybrids as part of their circus performance to get bailout money and now that gas has fallen Americans don’t want – the hybrids.
So what happens when the price of gas inevitably goes back up?? Theoretically the tax will get smaller.
Wanna bet???
We all know how this works. Congress will get hooked on that money pouring in to cover all their little pet programs like a bunch of junkies on crack. There will be no parting them from the money they get from that tax.
We Americans are a lot smarter than Congress wants to give us credit for being. We’ll figure out how to save gas if we have that tax forced on us. Then Congress will have to go back to their original plan of getting the money from the top one percent of earners.
What happens when the top one percent no longer have enough money to support all these bailouts, stimuli and pet programs? Well... the answer is obvious. Those of us who are going to be paying the gas tax to double the price of gasoline to sell those cars no one but Washington wants – and we can’t afford to run out and buy – will have to take up the slack. Taxes will have to be levied on us to keep up Congress’s ‘crackish addiction’ to the money. The very people Congress says they are there to protect are the ones who – once again – will feel the brunt of the new tax. The poor, the Middle Class, the hard working people of America who are the backbone of what makes this country great are the ones Congress wants to dump on again.
How much more will we be able to take??? Our pockets are no longer very deep – only time will tell.
So what happens when the price of gas inevitably goes back up?? Theoretically the tax will get smaller.
Wanna bet???
We all know how this works. Congress will get hooked on that money pouring in to cover all their little pet programs like a bunch of junkies on crack. There will be no parting them from the money they get from that tax.
We Americans are a lot smarter than Congress wants to give us credit for being. We’ll figure out how to save gas if we have that tax forced on us. Then Congress will have to go back to their original plan of getting the money from the top one percent of earners.
What happens when the top one percent no longer have enough money to support all these bailouts, stimuli and pet programs? Well... the answer is obvious. Those of us who are going to be paying the gas tax to double the price of gasoline to sell those cars no one but Washington wants – and we can’t afford to run out and buy – will have to take up the slack. Taxes will have to be levied on us to keep up Congress’s ‘crackish addiction’ to the money. The very people Congress says they are there to protect are the ones who – once again – will feel the brunt of the new tax. The poor, the Middle Class, the hard working people of America who are the backbone of what makes this country great are the ones Congress wants to dump on again.
How much more will we be able to take??? Our pockets are no longer very deep – only time will tell.
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