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Yes. It’s not a coincidence that less educated people think that the gas tax holiday is a great idea…</p>
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But it’s Duke… That’s not really surprising.</p>
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<p>The only study ever done on this, says that it will reduce the price of gas. Do a search on the gas tax holiday, I posted the study. </p>
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<p>This is not just a Duke problem.</p>
<p>“The only study ever done on this, says that it will reduce the price of gas.”</p>
<p>Maybe, but even if that’s true, it’s still a bad idea, for lots of reasons.</p>
<p>I have no idea how or why the WSJ article and Duke have anything to do with this discussion. 
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<p>The only Duke student (actually he is now officially an alum) I know is probably voting for McCain. 
It has nothing to do with race.</p>
<p>“According to them, if you are white and you vote for Hillary you are racist.”</p>
<p>Could you point out where and when an Obama supporter said this?</p>
<p>Don’t you know white yahoos can’t think and don’t know their own interests.</p>
<p>“In my opinion, anybody who votes against Obama solely because he is black is an ignorant yahoo.”</p>
<p>92% of blacks monolithically voted for Obama because he was black. Are they also ignorant yahoos?</p>
<p>^ Could depend on education level. :)</p>
<p>I actually think that yahoos can come in every shape and color.</p>
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That’s not true. No economists/“elites” have said it’s a good idea. I am only 18 and only know the basics of economics, yet even I know the gas tax holiday is a horrible idea.</p>
<p>Reasons why the “holiday” is a horrible idea:
1.) If it works the way Hillary and McCain intend it to, the holiday will save the average family $25 to $28 over the three month period.</p>
<p>2.) It will divert 10 billion dollars from our federal highway funds. You essentially get enough money for another tank of gas while allowing the highways and other infrastructure to become dilapidated or forcing your state government to borrow excessively to maintain the highways.</p>
<p>2.5) Hillary said she would use a corporate windfall profit tax to make up the lost government revenue. However, she is already planning on spending the money raised from a windfall tax on something else. In addition, there really is no such thing as a windfall profit tax.</p>
<p>3.) The oil companies are the ones who are going to benefit from removing the gas tax because it will allow for them to almost instantly jack up prices due to the excepted increase in demand and limited supply.</p>
<p>Basically, this gas tax holiday will do nothing to help Americans now and it will probably hurt them in the future. It’s nothing but political pandering and Hillary knows it. She hardly mentioned the idea in Oregon where the voters were more educated and more informed, yet she constantly mentioned it in Kentucky where the voters were less educated.</p>
<p>“The only study ever done on this, says that it will reduce the price of gas. Do a search on the gas tax holiday, I posted the study.”</p>
<p>It might. But it will benefit folks making under $50k about $20-$25. Folks with multiple SUVs, boats on the lake, off-road vehicles, giant lawn tractors will make out big time!</p>
<p>That’s what it means to be supporting the working class. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>“Don’t you know white yahoos can’t think and don’t know their own interests.”</p>
<p>That’s probably true of anybody who would vote against Obama solely because he is black, but would vote for a white candidate with the same experience and positions. Those are the yahoos I’m talking about; perhaps you have some other ones in mind.</p>
<p>"92% of blacks monolithically voted for Obama because he was black. Are they also ignorant yahoos?'</p>
<p>No. This question has been answered about a zillion times, but here goes. First of all, I think it’s just untrue that blacks voted for him solely because he was black. They would not vote monolithically for a black Republican. Second, there’s a difference between voting for a person because you share a characteristic with that person, and voting against somebody because you think less of people of his kind. Thus, for example, all other things being equal, I would vote for a candidate from my home state over somebody from Nevada. Is that prejudice against Nevada? No, I just think it would be cool to have somebody from my own state, and maybe that person would understand my problems a little better. I really wish you and others would stop pretending not to understand this.</p>
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What a stupid question. African American people have always been more than willing to vote for a White candidate, so there is no way you can paint African Americans’ overwhelming support of Obama as racism.</p>
<p>“I really wish you and others would stop pretending not to understand this.”</p>
<p>Well if you want to pretend go ahead and pretend, but the fact is that Clintons have done more for the black community than Obama - who just happened to be black. Of course now Clintons are racists.</p>
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True, but it’s often predictable. In addition, I am not sure what this has to do with anything. I think that it’s blatantly obvious that it has little to do with racism, though. It probably has more to do with the fact that people like to belong to groups. (In this case the groups are made up, though. There really is no such thing as “race.”)</p>
<p>“What a stupid question.”</p>
<p>It’s not a stupid question at all. It’s carefully crafted to play the race card against Obama. You’ll be hearing similar “questions” from the Republican slime machine over the next few months.</p>
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Who cares? African Americans overwhelmingly supported the Clintons in the 1990s so of course the Clintons had to address African American concerns and problems. What does that have to do with African Americans voting for Obama over Clinton? Are you saying that because her husband helped improve the lives of many African Americans, African Americans are now obligated to show their thanks by supporting his wife?</p>
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It’s a stupid question because it does not make sense. Again, African American people have always been more than willing to vote for a White candidate, so there is no way you can paint African Americans’ overwhelming support of Obama as racism.</p>
<p>Were all the black voters racist when they overwhelmingly supported Bill Clinton?</p>
<p>Can one of the Hillary supporters please answer that.</p>
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See? It does not make sense to even attempt to misconstrue African American support for Obama as racism.</p>
<p>“Well if you want to pretend go ahead and pretend, but the fact is that Clintons have done more for the black community than Obama - who just happened to be black. Of course now Clintons are racists.”</p>
<p>Like disenfranchising 12% of Black male voters?</p>