Anti-Tax for Me But Not For Thee
Nov 26th, 2005 at 3:53 pm by Susie
Oh sure, let’s tax the drivers who are conserving energy to subsidize the Humvees:
WASHINGTON — Taxing hybrids and other fuel-efficient cars and billing drivers for miles driven are among the approaches being suggested to avert a shortfall in money to maintain the nation’s highways.
Less than four months after President Bush signed a six-year, $286.4 billion highway and public transit act, a report commissioned by the US Chamber of Commerce said that the federal Highway Trust Fund is running out of money and that Congress needs to think about new revenue sources.
”Decisions are going to have to be made in the very near future,” said Ed Mortimer, the business lobby’s director of transportation infrastructure, acknowledging it could be a tall order. The next highway bill is years away and lawmakers may be loathe to return to a measure that was widely criticized for being padded with thousands of special-interest projects.
Oh that’s just dandy. I paid approximately $6,000 extra more than two years ago for a Honday Civic hybrid just so I would be environmentally responsible. It will take years, if ever, of savings on gas prices to pay me back for that investment. Now the government is considering taxing me for that act of responsibility while those better off who are driving Hummers just for the prestige of it get tax breaks?
Typical Republican b.s.