Backuptrk - can't resist this one: "and by the way, I am in favor of a measurable increase in the gas tax...and you know what would happen with a $3.00 gas guzzler tax at the pump tax? You would get all of these wacky housewives out of their Jeep Grand Cherokkees and Linclon Nav's and into something that fits the purpose of suburbia ..." [ed. I left out the trailing, rather unseemly reference to the wearing apparel of some Arab sects.]
"Wacky housewives"??? That's amusing, coming from a Democrat. Into something that fits the purpose of suburbia? Do you know what the best selling vehicles are in America - with your name, you should -- It's pickup trucks. Guess what -- a lot of people drive them for real live work.
I suppose it is important for Democrats to jump to misguided popularist ideas and to try and dictate the "common" economic good - like, maybe we should also manage the automobile industry and emulate those "wacky" folks who produced the ideal common car in the Soviet Union. Zil's were just really neat.
Your grasp of economics is demonstrably thin - raise the gas tax and since nearly everything we eat, drink, use and wear moves by truck, all you do is raise the prices of everything for everyone. That's particularly hard for those who count food as a major portion of their spending, but it is non-inconvenience to those "wacky" suburban housewives.
Gas guzzler taxes? That should really help our economy.
Gosh, let's rally the lower-middle class and lower class further into the classic penalize success trend. While we're at it, why don't we hammer the auto industry, the financial institutions that handle auto leasing and loans and those mean folks who make us buy their insurance for vehicles, too.
Managed economies - there's a time-proven idea!
Now, who has their head in a dark place?
Mr. K. |
