Originally posted by sigma:
I can afford to pay for gas no matter the cost. It wouldn't matter one bit to me if state taxes were doubled on gas, I'd pay a whole $15 more a month.



That's the second time you've mentioned the whopping $15/month increase in your bills for doubling gasoline taxes.

WOULD YOU PLEASE PULL YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR BUM AND REALIZE THAT FIGURE IS DRASTICALLY HIGHER FOR OTHER CITIZENS!

Besides the obvious fact that millions of citizens drive more than you, and the similarly obvious fact that the price of ALL goods and services would also increase; I thought a deep thinker like yourself would realize that an increase in gasoline tax is a drastically regressive tax that penalizes the poor exponentially more than it penalizes the gas-guzzling-SUV-driving-soccer-mom. This effect is even more pronounced for the rural poor who would be geographically prohibited to improving their life with your tax.

I am dumbfounded that you can sit there and repeatedly throw out that $15 figure as a burden applying equally to all citizens.

-- 1999 SVT #220 -- In retrospect, it was all downhill from here. RIP, CEG.