If you disagree with my pandering, your opinion is elitist!

[sfam]

How did we get here, that has become the main issue of this week's primaries? All economists and newspapers in the country have bashed the idea of a short term gas tax holiday, so this proves that they are all elitist???

And if this is really supposed to be for the summer, when is she planning to introduce this into the Senate? There's NO WAY it could get in place in time, even if introduced last month. I'm just amazed that the newsies discuss this as if its in any way real.

Does anyone buy this? Is there even any Clinton supporters buy this reasoning?

[TahitiNut]

1. She's showing her "leadership" (by following McCain) and "experience" (doomed to fail).

She's made herself a joke. :shrug:

[lumberjack_jeff]

2. As a short term bailout for drivers, it's a bad idea.

As a better long-term mechanism to fund R&D into alternative fuels and to pay for highways, a windfall profits tax is superior to a sales tax.

[Johnny__Motown]

4. But won't the companies increase the price to compensate for the drop from the removal of the tax

and then use that money to pay the windfall tax?


It looks like a big bait and switch to me. Demanding time from our government to make the change that won't change anything.

[sfam]

5. That's my fear too. Why wouldn't the gas companies just raise the prices and...

pass on the cost to the consumers? Then we have the "benefit" of paying the same prices but without the same value going to the infrastructures. Why? Because we've given an incentive for the oil companies to hide their earnings to save on taxes. It WILL happen.

[lumberjack_jeff]

6. Gas is high priced for one simple reason. You'll pay.

It is likely that gasoline will continue to increase in price, but which seems more expensive to you:
a) a windfall profits tax instead of a sales tax. As gas gets more expensive, the windfall profits tax brings in more revenue to pay for roads with the surplus funding R&D for alternative energy.
b) a much larger windfall profits tax added to a sales tax.

The former is the Clinton plan, the latter Obama's.

[LakeSamish706]

3. Thats actually commical... The one person has an admitted $109 million...

the other I suspect a substantial amount less than that yet he is branded the elitist... Go figure!