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• TxDOT Running Out Of Money ?

  Published: September 28, 2007, 12:43 am

  Tags: Toll Roads, Gas Tax, Txdot

  funds are needed, then the gas tax should be raised. At present, the state gas tax is 20 cents. While it would not be pleasant, a raise in the gas tax would actually be cheaper on Texas drivers than the many proposed toll roads. But they don't want Texans to know that, because then they couldn't give our roads to their corporate buddies.Don't

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• Gas Tax Should Be Raised Significantly

  Published: January 16, 2008, 1:03 am

  Tags: Toll Roads, Gas Tax

  and raise the national gas tax by 25-40 cents a gallon. The federal tax is currently 18.4 cents a gallon.They further said the states should also raise their portion of the gas tax. Currently, Texas has a 20 cent a gallon tax. The committee is right. We cannot ignore our infrastructure any longer. I believe we should raise both the federal

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• McCain:Halt Gas Tax

  Published: April 15, 2008, 1:12 pm

  Tags: Current News, Gas, Gas Tax, John Mccain

  John McCain is calling for a temporary removal of the federal gas tax. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080415/D902B5EG1.html

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• The Earth gets lost in Pennsylvania shuffle

  Published: April 23, 2008, 1:00 pm

  Tags: Politics News, Earth Day, Election 2008, Gas Tax, Hillary Clinton Pennsylvania, Oil Prices

  support a summertime "gas tax holiday" designed to relieve Americans from gas prices predicted to hit $4 per gallon. Obama does not support the tax, but not for environmental reasons. High gas prices are painful and it seems to a be necessary part of political pandering, especially for Democrats, that candidates talk about lowering

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• McCain is Right On

  Published: April 20, 2008, 4:06 pm

  Tags: Current News, Alchohol, Gas, Gas Tax, Police Power

  comparison of the alcohol tax, saving lives by slowing down consumption, to the gas tax, which would reduce the consumption of gas; this is laughable. People were being killed by drunk drivers before the liquor tax and are still being killed. Also, there is no comparison between the choice of consuming alcohol and the need for gas. Drinking is

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• Hey Hillary? Touch this! [grabs crotch]

  Published: April 29, 2008, 9:49 am

  Tags: Elections 2008, Politics, Gas Tax Pander, Hillary Clinton

  to meet their mortgages and gas up their cars and trucks. So let me get this straight: Obama is “out of touch” for backing a tax that funds needed infrastructure repairs in roads (in some cases, overdue repairs… re: Minnesota bridge collapse), and all this tax break would do is reduce gasoline prices by 20 cents? Whoopee!

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• Dear Barry: We Agree, Please Just Start Smoking Again (Just Not Menthols) [Crappy Hour]

  Published: April 29, 2008, 10:00 am

  Tags: Barack Obama, Brent Scowcroft, Crappy Hour, Gas Prices, Gas Tax, George W Bush, Henry Kissinger, Jeremiah Wright, Oil Companies, Recession, Wonkette

  Today, TheRoot made the courageous call no other news outlet, mainstream or meme-stream, has had the foresight (or clear-eyed grasp of the myriad complexities of the current era) to do, and penned an... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• All Economists Despise 'Gas Tax Holiday', What With Its Hilarious Lack Of Logic [Annals Of Gas Tax Holidays]

  Published: April 30, 2008, 2:16 pm

  Tags: Annals Of Gas Tax Holidays, Barack Obama, Gas Tax, Hillary Clinton, John Mccain, Oil, Taxes

  include slashing corporate taxes from 35% to 25%, eliminating the alternative minimum tax entirely thus re-opening old loopholes for the wealthy, and making the Bush tax cuts permanent — all of which will be balanced by the elimination of like $200 million in earmarks). McCain proposes a "gas tax holiday" — a break from the current

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• All Economists Despise 'Gas Tax Holiday', What With Its Hilarious Lack Of Logic [Annals Of Gas Tax Holidays]

  Published: April 30, 2008, 2:16 pm

  Tags: Annals Of Gas Tax Holidays, Barack Obama, Gas Tax, Hillary Clinton, John Mccain, Oil, Taxes

  Many of you may be aware that gas prices are rising about 20 cents a week, causing much despair among Average Americans. John McCain found the perfect anti-solution for this energy Depression, in...

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• The Silliness of the Gas Tax Holiday

  Published: April 30, 2008, 9:17 pm

  Tags: Barack Obama, Economy, Elections 2008, Hillary Clinton, John Mccain, Politics, Alternative Energy Solutions, Energy Policy, Gas Tax Holiday, Pandering, Smoke Screen

  and I was confident that gas prices weren’t going to be so great that not getting a hybrid would cripple me in the long run. And that’s where the gas tax hurts more than it helps, and where Krugman proves more short sided than a liberal economist of his stature should be. At the end of his piece, he claims that the gas tax

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• Tom Friedman on the Gas Tax Holiday

  Published: April 30, 2008, 2:34 pm

  Tags: Energy Issues, John Mccain, Politics U S, Gas Tax, Windfall Profits Tax

  we understand: the federal gas tax is primarily intended to build and maintain the American national highway system. If McCain suspends the federal gas tax, we'll have many more bridges collapsing, more potholes unfilled, and road construction projects put on hold. Let's also stipulate that an ill-advised cut in the federal gas tax isn't meant

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• Clinton Gas-Tax Proposal Criticized

  Published: May 1, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Clinton, Gas Tax, Proposal, Criticized, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Indiana, John Mccain, North Carolina, U S Democratic Party, Al Gore, Apex North Carolina, Carter Eskew, Jonathan Weisman, Kathy Spier, Kevin Knoblauch, Kokomo, Leonard Burman, N Gregory Mankiw, Perry Bac

  A growing chorus -- including a top congressional Democrat -- labeled Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's proposal for suspending the federal gasoline tax ineffective and shortsighted yesterday, even as she continued to paint Sen. Barack Obama as insensitive to drivers' woes for not endorsing the plan.

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• Clinton Gas-Tax Proposal Criticized

  Published: May 1, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Clinton, Gas Tax, Proposal, Criticized, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Indiana, John Mccain, North Carolina, U S Democratic Party, Al Gore, Apex North Carolina, Carter Eskew, Jonathan Weisman, Kathy Spier, Kevin Knoblauch, Kokomo, Leonard Burman, N Gregory Mankiw, Perry Bac

  A growing chorus -- including a top congressional Democrat -- labeled Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's proposal for suspending the federal gasoline tax ineffective and shortsighted yesterday, even as she continued to paint Sen. Barack Obama as insensitive to drivers' woes for not endorsing the plan.

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• McCain Calls Friedman Chauffered New York Elitist, Is Wrong [Mccain Psychobabble]

  Published: May 1, 2008, 1:33 pm

  Tags: Cnn, Economics, Elitism, Gas Tax Holiday, Mccain Psychobabble, New York City, Tax, Thomas Friedman

  On-again, off-again douchebag New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman was pleasantly trenchant in his column on the "gas tax holiday" yesterday, in which he proved in eight or nine different ways...

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• An Unbelievably Depressing Video Regarding The Gas Tax Holiday [Happy Thursday!]

  Published: May 1, 2008, 4:25 pm

  Tags: Barack Obama, Gas Tax Holiday, Happy Thursday, Indiana, Old People, Taxes, Youtube

  Barack Obama visited an assisted living home today in Indiana. Here is an old woman, so old she can barely speak, can barely even remember what she's going to ask, challenging Obama on why he won't...

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