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Some good points CDSmith...but since the govt. is already taking money from the "General Fund" to keep the Highway Fund going...why don't they just continue to do that?
Raising the gasoline tax will be a huge burden on people who are already barely getting by and also raise the cost of living all the way around.
Hell, even the cost of doing the very highway work that the tax pays for will rise since they have to transport all those materials to the workplace, and run those giant trucks that spread asphalt, etc. (not to mention the CO2 and pollution that they will release with those massive engines in those things).
To say that "industry" profits most is kinda like saying that industry profits most from eating food or breathing air.
Industry produces stuff and provides jobs.
Truckers move it. And boy have they been hurting since the early 2000's.
I remember when truck drivers would come to the strip clubs that some of my former wives in my past worked at. They were LOADED with cash. They would spend thousands of dollars a night at the club and my woman would come home rolling in money.
And that was in the late 1980's and 1990's when a dollar was worth a lot more than it is now.
But when diesel fuel prices skyrocketed? Most of the truck drivers I know fell on hard times. They are BARELY making money after costs. What used to be $1.10 in 1994 is now almost $4 a gallon for them.
That's REAL money when you're using thousands of gallons to drive cross country.
Anyway, whatever happens will happen. You're right about that. No amount of argument on GFY will change anything.
My main point I was trying to make was with people telling me how important our tax dollars are for maintaining highways. And I always tell them that the National Gasoline Tax is what pays for Federal Hwy's. Our tax dollars (theoretically since the U.S. Govt. is in 17 trillion of debt) has only been used for the last few years as we use less gas and they get less money in Washington as a result.
And the ironic thing is: The Federal Govt. did "Cash For Clunkers" a few years ago.
Pres. Obama went on television and gave speeches about how it was going to save the country AND with people driving newer cars they would use less gas and save money.
I guess we will be losing those "savings" back to the Federal Govt. after all. Because all or our money we earn belongs to them (in their minds)
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