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To: Harvey Allen who wrote (128945)	4/11/2004 11:06:38 AM
From: Sig	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

>> Why not tax fuel the same way Europe does? Cigarettes cost $5. a pack to keep people from smoking. Why not $5. a gallon to keep people from driving? Profitable. Pay off the $500 billion deficit in no time. >>> An excellent choice and it will be done,sneakily, tho, an increase here, an increase there. And designate it as war tax. And yes we have many options to keep the debt under control without an increases in income taxes. This Al Sadr fella may be a good preacher, but not much of a General. One more day of fighting and he will have lost the entire city of Falugha while losing more Iraqi lives than we lost in the entire war. Sig