Charles Whittington, chairman of the American Trucking Associations, which supports a fuel tax increase as long as the money goes to highway projects, said Congress may decide to disguise a fuel tax hike as a surcharge to combat climate change.
This article is about a push to increase the fuel tax by 50%. Note the self-serving nature of the recommendation.
Mr. Whittington has a good plan to get the increase past the American consumer though.
"Instead of calling it a gas tax, call it a carbon tax," Whittington said. "As long as we label it as something else we may have the momentum and acceptance to move forward."
For his ridiculous and sleazy idea, I salute Mr Whittington and award him the Dodo bird
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12 comments:
Sheesh. Just when Obama had promised to "invest" in shiny new roads, I won't be able to afford to drive on them...
We evil, fossil fuel consumers are about to pay through the ying yang if these socialist morons have their way.
I suggest that Mr. Whittington get the "I just got the shit beat out of me" award.
Ass.
Wait. I'M supposed to respond after these comments...they all said it..so did you, Chuck.
Also, I came by to apologize.
I was so stunned that YOU of all people, as smart as you are, hadn't heard Hamas was hitting Israel until you saw that thing on my blog ...and I'm mentioning that and there BECAUSE it supports our FEELING THAT THE MEDIA'S NOT ONLY LYING BUT KEEPING INFO AWAY FROM US...
I hope you don't mind. xx
Well that was interesting.
Christopher Hamilton
The Right Opinion, for the Right Wing
Dablade, funny
Larry, I still drive an Explorer. I just smile whn I see one of these little wind up cars trying to get through the snow.
Brooke, he's just going with the Dem crowd. We'll see a whole new load of newspeak
Z, use my ignorance as you need. The truth is I had been very busy and I found it quite embarassing that I had not realized it was so bad. You are right though, it didn't get near the play that the Israeli offensive is getting now.
Christopher, thanks
Interesting. The article says that the reason the states are getting behind is because people are driving less. I thought that was one of the goals of the lefties? Now because they are driving less, the taxes have to increase? Which will cause them to drive less?
Which will cause the taxes to be increased again...
And so on, and so on..
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Rick
"I suggest that Mr. Whittington get the "I just got the shit beat out of me" award.
Ass."
Now that's funny
has any tax ever found it's way to going to where it was intended to go? NO! Mr. Whittington and his like just need to write checks to DC for the amount of money that they don't feel their being taxed enough for.
Randy, don't try to figure it out, you'll hurt yourself
and Brooke too
Larry, Brooke is eloquent, that's why I like her
Stormin, no. We had a outcry here in Michigan a decade or so ago. The loterry has always been billed as helping education, with all proceeds going to education. Someone noticed though that they simply took less out of the general fund for education so there was no extra money as they were implying. They fixed it after the public found out.
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