Clinton and McCain want to Suspend the Federal Gas Tax for VOTES! (gas price, gallon) - Elections - Page 2 - City-Data Forum

expat007 · 05-01-2008, 08:33 AM

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Originally Posted by TuborgP

Maybe it wasn't a political ploy. Maybe even worse they didn't know any better? Maybe they didn't think before acting now that would be scary. Remember McCain has said he is no student of economics and I don't hear anyone shouting out that Hilllary has any academic credentials. Is there any question that Obama is the intellectual of the group. The Billary crowd has even accused him of being an intellectual out of touch with Bubba.

Hillary failed her bar exams in ILLINOIS, went to work in small town law firm in arkansas and married the governor,

and the rest as they say is all coattailing to power

hahaha

Rggr · 05-01-2008, 09:23 AM

They could fund this "tax vacation" by not earmarking funds for any bridges to nowhere this summer. That will not happen so it will likely lead us to borrow more from China.

walidm · 05-01-2008, 09:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Rggr

They could fund this "tax vacation" by not earmarking funds for any bridges to nowhere this summer. That will not happen so it will likely lead us to borrow more from China.

An economist noted there are not enough bridges [that could be canceled] multiplied by ten in the earmark budget that would come close to covering 9 Billion dollars.

walidm · 05-01-2008, 09:27 AM

The news reported the avg. earmark is around a million bucks. We need 1000 million for the first billion.

Rggr · 05-01-2008, 09:34 AM

So if the gas tax is truly being used to fund roads, we should have billions in reserve.

walidm · 05-01-2008, 09:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Rggr

So if the gas tax is truly being used to fund roads, we should have billions in reserve.

I'm with ya....where's the reserve.....

Rggr · 05-01-2008, 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by walidm

I'm with ya....where's the reserve.....

True. We could also look at the billions illegal aliens cost the taxpayers, and the money spent on entitlement programs.

expat007 · 05-01-2008, 09:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Rggr

True. We could also look at the billions illegal aliens cost the taxpayers, and the money spent on entitlement programs.

ridiculous !!! they are your cheap labour, cut them out and you send more jobs to china ahahah

But of course the Chinese have nukes, so not likely targets for amerikkan propaganda

pghquest · 05-01-2008, 09:57 AM

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Originally Posted by walidm

I'm with ya....where's the reserve.....

I checked your link, I didnt see anything about the gas tax on it.. Had something to do with the war again..

walidm · 05-01-2008, 10:03 AM

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Originally Posted by pghquest

I checked your link, I didnt see anything about the gas tax on it.. Had something to do with the war again..

How much is the war costing us that we would not be spending on the war if we weren't at war?

Or quite simply - if ya don't drink milk where would you spend that money?