One of the very first “accomplishments” of the new GOP majority in Congress was to approve a piece of corporate welfare to subsidize terrorism insurancefor big companies.
But I tried to overlook that development since there were a few modest reforms included with the legislation. After all, you shouldn’t make the perfect the enemy of the good (even if the good, in this case, was rather anemic).
There won’t be any excuse, however, if Republicans move forward with a plan to hike the gas tax and further centralize transportation decisions in Washington.
And that’s exactly what seems to be brewing. Senator Corker of Tennessee (an otherwise generally sensible lawmaker) has put forward a specific plan.
Corker, R-Tenn., is drafting something most conservatives avoid at all costs — a tax bill. The Tennessee senator, along with Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., wants the 18.4-cents per-gallon federal gasoline tax and the 24.4-cents per-gallon federal diesel tax to each increase by 12 cents over the next two years — and then be indexed to inflation.
And there are several other senior GOPers who have expressed sympathy.
“I just think that option is there, it’s clearly one of the options,” said Sen. Inhofe (R-Okla.), new chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), the third-ranking Senate Republican, also said they were open to the possibility of raising the tax.
Wow. This is so bad and so discouraging that I’m not even sure where to start.
So let’s make three observations.
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4 comments:
Another reason the "moderates" must go.
Now is not the time to tax.
it just doesn't seem to matter if there is a D or R after their names.
All politicians are the same.
As I've said in this forum in the previous weeks, I am NOT at all pleased, nor impressed, with what I'm seeing out of the GOP in Congress. We gave them the chance to redeem and cleanse the country.., and this BS is what they're going to do to us. Just more of the same biased unguided favoritism with genuine lack of forethought for the well being of the country as a whole.
If these people cannot understand that we demand meaningful change and expect it they must understand what the alternative is.
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