Do you support a gas tax holiday?

Do you support Hillary Clinton's proposal for removing the gas tax for three months? If so please explain how you believe it will help the average consumer.

and it will screw our already fragile infrastructure, which is already being well screwn by this ridiculous tax rebate assholery nonsense going on now.

your poll does not make clear how it would be paid for.

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It won't be paid for


Hillary knows it.. why don't you?

Hillary's plan for a windfall profit tax would never make it out of congress, and even if it did Bush would "VETO" it! I will not happen this summer no matter what Hillary says!

As I http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5810742">pointed out in another thread, Clinton had already proposed a windfall profits tax and the closing of loopholes for oil and gas companies, and proposed using that money for the development of alternative fuels. So if she takes the money she was planning to use to invest in alternative fuels to pay for a gas tax holiday, it might delay implementation of her long-term plan to invest in alternative fuel development.

A case could be made for delaying the long-term plan in order to provide short-term relief, but she has not had to make that case yet because nobody has called her on it, except someone on Hardball the other night, who pointed out that voters probably would not notice.

for front end and suspension repairs from all the potholes that don't get fixed because the gas tax isn't paid.

Ya get the guvmint ya pay for folks.

We have rural counties here in CA turning paved roads back to gravel because they can no longer afford to maintain them.

Here! In the greatest country on earth! In the 21st century!

We are regressing.

Can I vote three times that I support it and then once that I think it's political pandering?

Because you listened to studies that proved it didn't help.

I find it strange that when Obama proves that he has learned from his years of experience some people will still shoot him down because of it. I'd have to call that pathetic.

It will encourage more consumption, which will drive prices up. Then, when the tax is reinstated, the price will be higher than ever. In the meantime most people will save about $25 for the whole summer. Since Hillary's proposed windfall profits tax on the oil companies will have exactly zero chance of passing, the net loss in tax revenues will only make it even more difficult to maintain and repair our already shitty highways and bridges. As one who lives only a few miles from where a major freeway bridge collapsed, I think is is a really, really terrible idea. I'll be happy to pay my $25 for the summer to keep that from happening again.

Edited to make it "four" supporting.

Ask the folks in Minnesota where that bridge collapsed if it's worth saving a couple bucks and not repair our infrastructure.

They're either hyper-partisan or just short sighted and greedy.

It could be both, I suppose. :shrug:

but otherwise around just to bicker, meander, and bleat like goats.

It's honestly disgusting that these people would support something they can't even explain in order to win votes.

Do these people really only care about getting their candidate into office?

Are there people here willing to hurt our economy even further for partisan advantage?

I don't mind getting ripped off, as long as it's called a "holiday"!

Seriously though, this "gas tax holiday" might just be the most ridiculous pander ever.

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How can anyone support it without being able to state how it helps?

that don't involve increasing demand for oil.

but in the short term may not help most commuters, and in the long term won't help anybody.

But, at least over the summer months, in theory, prices at the stores would not go up to compensate for trucking costs. (though rail is still cheaper.)

Just my observations, but I am no expert.

Also, as the tax is paid at the refinery there would be no impetus for the oil companies to pass that savings along to the consumer. If past experience is any indication they would just make up excuses such as rising demand, increased cost of production, etc...

Truckers would be very unlikely to see much savings even in the short term because of this.

We couldn't tax gas any more for infrastructure maintenance and development because the country would grind to a halt. Oh, and development always pays for itself. And the suckers actually swallowed that hook, line and sinker.

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cab drivers, etc. Folks that earn a living via driving like that.

In fact, I have to think that it already is since I get mileage on my 1040A, I would have to assume they do as well. It would probably be best to increase that amount to offset increases in cost for all business purposes.

I don't believe for one minute that Big Oil will not
make up the difference by increasing gas prices,
again and again.

92% of replies would rather be policy right and electability wrong. God, I love this place! :grouphug:

And not one who can.

How can anyone respect that?

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...not because there's any particular merit to the proposal, and they'd vote "no" if she disagreed.

It's not good policy, and it may not even be good politics. What it is, is grasping at straws.

Pure hyper-partisanship at work there. These people are willing to sell their country down the drain just to win. Disgusting.

..are we INSANE! The oil companies set the price and make record profits. It takes a lot of faith to think removing taxes would lower the price in a significant way. Sorry, we need more than a three month pander patch.

But it doesn't stop them from supporting it. How sad.