Buried in the news for Saturday, 18 July 2008, was an item regarding the effort to give a "gasoline tax holiday" for the summer and the action in Congress regarding it on Friday.
Did you see this? The highway construction lobby raised holy hell, moaning about the number of jobs that would be lost nationally as the slush fund for road construction and maintenance is already in the red and, if the tax flow were to be cut off, it would only get worse.
That argument won the day as DEMOCRATS DECIDED A HOLIDAY WASN'T A GOOD SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM, AN INCREASE OF $ 0.10 IN THE TAX WAS REQUIRED INSTEAD. That's right, they now want to increase the federal tax on all motor fuels by a dime--gasoline, diesel, av gas, you name it. All of this to avoid some road workers losing their jobs while they put the rest of us in a world of hurt. How many working Americans will now lose their homes or their jobs because they can no longer afford the cost of fuel at a government imposed increased cost?
How can they expect to be elected with such proposals?
It's beyond me
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