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To: TimF who wrote (685)	7/10/2008 3:44:19 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

The biggest problem with a gas tax, which I would absolutely support, is that it leaves our government flush with new tax revenues that they use for all sorts of things besides diversifying our energy sources. So I would support a gas tax only insofar as the proceed would be use in their entirety to subsidize alternative automotive energy sources. My opinion is that taxes should only ever be raised if there is a very specific goal the people have in mind and those new tax revenues should be exclusively used to achieve that goal. Anything else is just adding pork and bloat to an already bloated and inefficient government.