interesteddad –
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Obama should explain why he was for a gas tax holiday (voting for it twice in the Illinois state legislature) before he was against a gas tax holiday.
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Uhhh, b/c he and many others thought it was a good idea at the time.
Unlike Hillary’s shameful (well, not to her)
pandering, Obama
LEARNED from the experience various states/counties have had w/ doing away or capping the gas tax (IL, FL, NY, etc.) and the end result showed that there wasn’t much benefit to the consumer (since companies up and down the gas supply chain tend to add a penny or two to their cost upon gas tax “relief”) and that it decimated state/local budgets w/ regard to infrastructure maintenance/repairs (what happened to Hillary talking about the drastic need for infrastructure investment after the Minny bridge collapse?).
Well, if Hillary isn't willing to listen to the experts/economists - how about looking at the experience of her own state (that she supposedly represents)?
Counties rethinking gas tax caps | PoughkeepsieJournal.com | Poughkeepsie Journal Quote:
Yet Rockland County dropped its county cap late last year and other counties, including Schenectady, Orange and Albany, also abandoned a cap after some determined the savings was simply going back to oil companies.
"It is clear that the intended savings for Albany County drivers was a windfall for the oil industry," Albany County Comptroller Michael Conners said in a 2006 report.
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Gee, Hillary seemingly have no clue about what is happening in the state that she is supposed to represent (shocking!).
And oh, btw, interesteddad – maybe you should pose the same question to Hillary?
Here was Clinton in June 2000 when she was running for the U.S. Senate, opposing any idea of touching the gas tax:
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Campaigning in the Hudson Valley, Lazio continued a two-day assault on Clinton's support of maintaining the 18-cent federal gas tax and then used tough rhetoric to declare that "trust" and "character" were campaign issues during an evening fundraiser in Manhattan that raised more that $1 million.
Clinton, meanwhile, lashed out at Lazio's plan to repeal 4.3 cents of the gas tax, calling it "a bad deal for New York and a potential bonanza for the oil companies." |