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eagle-eyes

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I posted this here since most of you are politically active. I gues it has something to do with guns because the more of those damn gas taxes we can eliminate, the more money we have to buy guns :)

All,

Please send the following sample email to your representative asking them to cosponsor H.R. 3844 which would repeal the 1993 Clinton-Gore tax increase on gasoline. This bill is important because much of the price of a gallon of gas is made up of taxes.
Pretty bad considering we are already paying federal, state, local, SDI, sales, and property taxes just to name a few. Also, with $2 gal gas prices we need to get rid of some of the taxes.See the following URL for the break down of the price of a gallon of gas:
http://www.energy.ca.gov/fuels/gasoline/breakdown.html

Details follow.

or you can call your representative at: 202-225-3121


Sample letter:
To the Honorable <name>,

Please cosponsor H.R. 3844. This legislation will repeal the 4.3 cent per gallon gas tax increase enacted as part of President Cinton's 1993 tax increase.

More than 40 cents of the cost of a gallon of gas is lost to taxes. Please see http://www.energy.ca.gov/fuels/gasoline/breakdown.html for the breakdown costs of a gallon of gas.

Americans are being burdened with to much taxes, they already pay federal, state, local, sales and property tax. With the current high gas prices it's time to remove some of the taxes that have been
tacked on to the price of gasoline.


Details:
Congressman Pombo Introduces Gas Tax Reduction

In response to the increasing gas prices, I have introduced legislation =
that would repeal the 4.3-cent per gallon tax increase enacted as a part =
of President Clinton=92s 1993 tax increase.

The bill H.R. 3844, would repeal the 1993 Clinton tax increase on all =
highway gasoline, diesel fuel and kerosene, and compressed natural gas. =
This would affect every automobile on the road today, motorboats, and =
trains.

Consumers have every right to be to upset about rising gas prices, =
Unfortunately, most consumers don=92t realize that every time they go to =
fill up their tank, they=92re paying up to 24.4 cents per gallon to =
Uncle Sam. That=92s money families need, not the federal government!

Please Call your Member of Congress today, and urge them to join my =
bill.=20

There is no reason why we should pay $2.00 a gallon for gas.
 
Well, it is nowhere written that Americans should be immune to the marketplace, whether we like that or not.

These higher prices will fade as OPEC and their allies increase production, as they are already getting into.

We would lose more in highway construction and maintenance than the low percentage saving would warrant.

Either drive less or change your lifestyle into a more fuel-efficient car. Spend less elsewhere and make up for the extra six bucks or less per tankful of gas...

:), Art
 
Art,

I respectfully disagree. It's the principle that is the issue. We already pay federal, state, local, sales, SDI, property, death and phone taxes. If the government cannot do what they need to do with all that money, they are not using it wisely (we already know that). Given Clinton/Gore's past record on other issues, you really think they are using that 4 cents a gallon time billions wisely?

I hate top say it, but it's attitudes like that, that keeps us knee deep in taxes, gun control, and all the other lost of our freedoms.
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by eagle-eyes:
Art,

I respectfully disagree. It's the principle that is the issue. We already pay federal, state, local, sales, SDI, property, death and phone taxes. If the government cannot do what they need to do with all that money, they are not using it wisely (we already know that). Given Clinton/Gore's past record on other issues, you really think they are using that 4 cents a gallon time billions wisely?

I hate top say it, but it's attitudes like that, that keeps us knee deep in taxes, gun control, and all the other lost of our freedoms.

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Perhaps, but it's the closest thing to a user fee as there is in a tax. If you were pushing to repeal the income tax, I'm on board for that one. That one is the most immoral.
 
I'll go along with any attempt to repeal a tax. I'll echo Arts' free market reality check and add that there is no "zero sum" economy or finite energy source.

Get the government out of the market and it shall thrive.

Technology (driven by market forces) enable the aquisition of new sources of oil. Get out of the way and let it happen, please Uncle Sam.
 
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