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Originally posted by Botnst
Lessee, a tax to curatil needless driving. Rich folks can pay $20/fill or $40 fill and they may whine like stuck capitalist pigs, but it doesn't hurt the rich. The difference is probably less that 1% of their weekly income.
Now poor folks. poor folks get hurt. Lets say you gotta drive your 1993 plymouth to work at your $10/hour job. You spend say $20/week on gas.. Oh yeah, then there's all that tax witholding and SSI and such so your take-home is probably like oh, $300. You gotta hold out for food and rent and ultilities so now your down to $250 or less. Now some ********* wants to drain another $10-$20/week for a fuel consumption tax. That's like 8% of the take-home from the working poor.
Would a Democrat do that to the poor?
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I wish you could stop seeing this as a stereotypical war-on-poverty issue in order to score class warfare points. In a real war, everybody, rich and poor alike should have some sacrifice to make. That's one of the great things wrong with this war. Nobody has to sacrifice anything, and its kept like that because the gutless politicians in charge don't want to lose the votes they would lose if we actually did what we had to do to win a war. Instead, we foist it on our volunteer army, and we foist it on the those who signed up for the reserves and guard, while we better off folks enjoy our tax cuts and cry for more from the public treasury, all financed by borrowed money.