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Topic	lmao trump may suggest a 25 cent per gallon gas tax to pay for infrastructure
streamofthesky 02/14/18 10:18:24 PM #73:	Grendel posted... Jen0125 posted... what was the point of the fucking tax breaks if you're just going to add a tax somewhere else? Well if you remove things like income and estate taxes and shift them to things like sales and gas taxes then you've effectively pushed some of the tax burden off the rich and onto the poor. Exactly this. The point wasn't to cut taxes. The point was to cut taxes for the rich. In any case, the gas tax hasn't been raised since 1994 (it's a flat amount, not %-based like most taxes) and thus has fallen way behind inflation. It's a serious problem and we haven't had the money to keep roads and bridges repaired and safe for years now. So raising it is a good idea. But Trump's infrastructure plan itself is not a good idea. <cite>streamofthesky posted [p:896106112] in lmao trump... [t:76319718]...</cite> <quote><cite>Grendel posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Jen0125 posted...</cite> <quote>what was the point of the fucking tax breaks if you're just going to add a tax somewhere else?</quote> Well if you remove things like income and estate taxes and shift them to things like sales and gas taxes then you've effectively pushed some of the tax burden off the rich and onto the poor.</quote> Exactly this. The point wasn't to cut taxes. The point was to cut taxes for the rich. In any case, the gas tax hasn't been raised since 1994 (it's a flat amount, not %-based like most taxes) and thus has fallen way behind inflation. It's a serious problem and we haven't had the money to keep roads and bridges repaired and safe for years now. So raising it is a good idea. But Trump's infrastructure plan itself is not a good idea.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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