Letters to the Editor
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@ Jerm, Jeffersonian, Uncle Fester, manos99
Jerm asks:
LeCastor - lawyer up. At least there's a point to the post. But WTF on the STFU!?
Jeffersonian provides my answer:
LeCastrata, the franocphile corporate whore wannabe, says the gas holiday is a psychological benefit. I checked my old Buick; there's no psycho input, only a gas tank. You know gas first hand, Beaver. It's what you post, reeking of hydrogen sulphide. The bitch has passed pandering and is streetwalking. Ain't no one stopping to pick up that has-been pander bear in the fishnet stockings.
That's what the STFU is for.
Uncle Fester asks:
This whole tax credit concept is supposed to provide relief to real people stretched to the limit. If the price of gas stays the same or drifts higher, there will be no relief, no pyschological benefits.
There's the psychological benefit of knowing that the gov't is trying to do something for you, and it's the oft-maligned oil companies who are not absorbing the tax. Your analysis conflates monetary benefits with psychological benefits, but the whole point of distinguishing psychological benefits is that they are separate from monetary benefits.
If I remember correctly only about half of all Americans own some type of stock through a variety of investment vehicles. And the distribution curve is pretty steep, meaning the top 15% own a huge percentage of the market. So the average blue collar joe or josephine is not getting dividends or cool equity appreciation off of this asset inflation bubble. I hope you are short the USD and long commodities!
Only half? That's a huge amount. Anyone who has a 401K that is not invested in money market owns stock indirectly. Anyone who owns oil stock sees the value of that stock go up or down depending on the profits (and other factors). Half of the people who own stock have portfolios of less than $50,000, but that's a lot of money to a lot of people.
And you must have missed the memo. We're all anti-elites now. In fact, I'm about to conclude a deal with Slyvester McMonkey McBean for exclusive use of his elite-off machine.
Fuck y'all, I don't even have a car, so this tax holiday really only affects the flue surcharge of my grocery deliveries.
And manos, I don't have my law degree yet, but will in 6-8 of weeks. Had to send in all those Betty Crocker points. Thanks for asking.