Trump proposes .25cent fuel tax INCREASE to fund infrastructure (wages, gasoline, companies)

[pknopp]

Originally Posted by lifeexplorer

Just crumbs.

Wall Street is the Main Street in case you don’t know.

Wall Street will pay big time as transportation drives all industries.

It used to be. It is no longer.

[pknopp]

Originally Posted by Alewife

Nothing wrong with a 25 cent federal gas tax increase to fund transportation infrastructure.

Is it paying for the roads and infrastructure we are responsible for in Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.?

[Vegabern]

I can't stand Trump but I have no problem with an increase in the gas tax. It's long overdue.

[odanny]

Originally Posted by Freak80

I think Lyndon Johnson figured it out 50 years ago:

https://www.snopes.com/lbj-convince-...est-white-man/

Is that ever true today!

President Lyndon B. Johnson once said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

[cttransplant85]

This is dead on arrival. Conservatives are not going to sign up for a regressive tax.

[Mathguy]

As usual, we only have a few mature individuals willing to discuss the proposal while the rest just resort to partisanship.

I'd prefer some sort of indexed gas tax that is reviewed every 3 years by set formula so we don't have to go through all the partisan grandstanding and whining regardless of the party in office.

I'd be surprised if we don't have some sort of gas tax thread in the past here with many posters now presenting 180-degree opinions on the topic.

[lifeexplorer]

Originally Posted by pknopp

It used to be. It is no longer.

Still is and always has been and always will be.

All of us have retirement tied into the Wall Street.

It’s not true that Wall Street is some rich club.

[Vegabern]

Originally Posted by lifeexplorer

Still is. All of us have retirement tied into the Wall Street.

I would hardly call 52% of Americans "all of us".

[pknopp]

Originally Posted by lifeexplorer

Still is. All of us have retirement tied into the Wall Street.

As Dow Tops 25000, Individual Investors Sit It Out

https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-dow-...out-1515099703

[shorman]

Originally Posted by Mathguy

As usual, we only have a few mature individuals willing to discuss the proposal while the rest just resort to partisanship.

I'd prefer some sort of indexed gas tax that is reviewed every 3 years by set formula so we don't have to go through all the partisan grandstanding and whining regardless of the party in office.

I'd be surprised if we don't have some sort of gas tax thread in the past here with many posters now presenting 180-degree opinions on the topic.

Another post from Mr. Above It All Non Partisan. Nobody buys your BS.