Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Clinton-McCain gas tax holiday slammed as bad idea | Reuters

This is quite possibly the worst idea I've ever heard. I drive about 100 miles a day or so, and I would still only save around 50 bucks. That's assuming that the tax holiday doesn't otherwise drive the price up as suggested in the article. And it would cost the government billions of dollars. Like we're not going to have to pay for that later? Stupid.

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6 comments:

Toast said...

Ah, but it gives such good sound bite. "Tax" and "holiday" in the same sentence? That's catnip for the political nimrods that make up the bulk of the electorate.

Anonymous said...

I could not agree more. I got in a HUGE fight with my mother over this very topic this weekend. She'd probably save about 20 cents a year in gas, and theyd jack up our taxes by two thousand dollars to compensate.

Effing politicians.

John Howard said...

Yeah, anyone to whom the amount of money they might save under this proposal is significant to their finances has much bigger problems than the price of gas already.

michelline said...

Assuming $.18 saved per gallon, I'd save a whopping $27 month. And that's in an SUV that gets 14.2 miles/gallon. I fill up the Navigator about 3 times every 2 weeks. So about 6 times a month. Estimating 25 gallons a fill...

Most people won't even save that much.

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