http://azbikelaw.org/blog/gas-tax-pandering/ Cycling, traffic safety and legal topics; energy, transit and transportion economics Mon, 21 May 2012 20:01:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://azbikelaw.org/blog/gas-tax-pandering/comment-page-1/#comment-455 Arizona Bike Law Blog » Blog Archive » Mr. Market's Oil Fix: Higher Taxes Wed, 07 May 2008 20:24:21 +0000 http://azbikelaw.org/blog/gas-tax-pandering/#comment-455 [...] I am soooo dissapointed with McCain for the the gas tax holiday thing. I would have expected it from Democrats, and indeed Hillary has jumped on McCain’s bandwagon. Obama offers the only reasoned response on this particular issue — that sounds crazy but it is objectively true; McCain would pay for the holiday by adding to the federal deficit, and Hillary hillariously wants to increase taxes on the oil companies for the offset. Pure pandering. [...] [...] I am soooo dissapointed with McCain for the the gas tax holiday thing. I would have expected it from Democrats, and indeed Hillary has jumped on McCain’s bandwagon. Obama offers the only reasoned response on this particular issue — that sounds crazy but it is objectively true; McCain would pay for the holiday by adding to the federal deficit, and Hillary hillariously wants to increase taxes on the oil companies for the offset. Pure pandering. [...]

]]> http://azbikelaw.org/blog/gas-tax-pandering/comment-page-1/#comment-403 Arizona Bike Law Blog » Blog Archive » Euros and euros Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:44:38 +0000 http://azbikelaw.org/blog/gas-tax-pandering/#comment-403 [...] and ever-increasing amounts of dollars to oil producing nations. Thus the “solution”: suspend gas taxes. But that will decrease revenues for projects at home, and exacerbate (lowering the price of gas [...] [...] and ever-increasing amounts of dollars to oil producing nations. Thus the “solution”: suspend gas taxes. But that will decrease revenues for projects at home, and exacerbate (lowering the price of gas [...]

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