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The Gas Tax Hustle

If you’re listening to the political hype about the “Gas Tax Holiday” you know about this program that’s proposed initially by McCain (video) and backed by McCain and Hillary (opposed by Obama), which offers a break (3 months) from paying the taxes on gasoline through the summer – designed on the surface to ease the spending for Americans on gasoline for summer travel etc.

If you care enough to dig through this bullshit, they you’ll learn enough that this plan is fundamentally flawed for Americans and could actually be detrimental to the US economy as a result (says notable scholars and economists).

The highlights:

  • The plan would ultimately benefit the Oil Companies not the American people. There are no restrictions in the plan to prevent oil companies to further raise the price of gas to accomodate a cut in price. Ultimately we could pay the same and when the tax gets implemented again – BAM! a drastic increase.
  • The national average price of gas when this was first announced was $3.38, the current average as of today is $3.67 Cutting the cost by 18 cents (the current tax levied) amounts to less than a 5% reduction. This reduction could mean an average savings of between $20 and $28 per person depending on the source.

    Wow that’s totally enough to have a holiday in Flushing for a day!!! What a scam.

    The cheapest gas in the world – ranked is:
    1. Venezuela at 12 cents
    2. Iran at 40 cents
    3. Saudia Arabia 45 cents
    44. United States $3.45

    The most expensive in the world – ranked is:
    1. Eritrea $9.58
    2. Norway $8.73
    3. United Kingdom $8.38
    4. Netherlands $8.37
    5. Monaco $8.31
    108. United States $3.45

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Rovian Policy, Bushian belief

Bush and Rove’s campaign themes include:

  • Tax cuts: Make them permanent and prosperity will follow… for the rich
  • Seal the border: A guest worker program isn’t amnesty… and at the same time drive up the cost of American labor, increase spending for unprooven boarder control methods and ultimately causing more taxes to be paid by middle americas
  • Medicare: Democrats talk about it; the GOP reformed it.. and its still expensive and confusing
  • Energy: It’s time to just say no to Mideast oil…No you can’t have it Iraq, we will take it, control it and tell our own people how much they should be paying for fuel.
  • God and family: Increase faith-based programs and confirm conservative judges who promote family values… Apparently Bush doesn’t believe in science, education and bettering his countries people either.
  • Blame the media: They hate us anyway, and now their leaks are damaging national security… diversion tactics to avoid real issues of illegal programs and compromising our own freedoms.

Now this sounds like a prosperous America: Broke, out of work, higher cost of living and health, still no home grown energy supplies, blame everyone but ourselves and if all else fails, God will save us in the end… everything will be ok.