Letters to the Editor
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Here?
Whoda thought the only rational(ization) of Clinton's Big Pander would show up on Salon? How could Joan allow such nonsense on her internets pages?
I am shocked, shocked and awed by her testicular fortitude.
I am looking at the "Most Active Stories" in the left column:
"Hillary Clinton's big, brass....fortitude. She battled Bill O'Reilly (and won) while hammering away on her gas-tax holiday plan, critics be damned."
and
"The media, the right and 1988: Endless deja vu
Will the tactics that the GOP perfected in 1988, and to which the media is addicted, work again in 2008 to render actual issues yet again irrelevant?"
This is one bizarre bipolar site.
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Please
This reads like a comment, and not a particularly good one. Maybe you'd find a more receptive audience on Craigslist.
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Really?
Why would Obama be against this if he thought it would work? Clearly his is the harder position to take. Just look at the working class hero Hillary has become using this issue (okay, some Jack Daniels was also involved). Her reality distortion field continues to impress.
I was about to complain about the influence of this article only a day before the primaries, but then I remembered only us unimportant latte slurpers actually read Salon.
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This article is disingenuous
It doesn't state the fact that the gas tax holiday went into effect largely during the late summer/early fall months and into the Winter. What happens naturally during that time? Gas prices fall because demand falls.
In other words, you can chalk up the decline in prices largely to seasonal differences more than anything else.
This is just disingenuous writing from start to finish.
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This is election pandering
This is election pandering. If they want the repeal the $.18 then let them do it now. Has either McCain or Clinton sponsored a Bill? None of these candidates will be President by Memorial day but are Senators and can work to repeal the tax now if so desired.
BTW this is a stupid idea, Anyone who thinks Congress or Bush will go for a windfall Tax is Dreaming. "Tax my buds...no way, no how, never gonna happen".
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Kroger is offering 10% extra on Kroger gift cards
In increments of 300, 600, 1200 dollars. So that if you buy a gift card for 300 you get 330 back. If 30 bucks is tainted lucre to you, please send your 30 dollar gift cards to me. Thank you.
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dumbest article i have ever read
If you honestly believe what you just wrote then you need to put down the crack pipe. This is TEXT BOOK political theater at its most obvious. Summer tax break on gas? ooohhh, you mean i might only pay 3.50 per gallon instead of 3.67? (most gas tax averages .17 cents nation wide) wow, thanks Hil, now i can buy my kid an extra happy meal a week. Wait, how about you get gas prices back down to below 2 dollars where they were less than 2 years ago. Oh thats right, supply and demand get it the way at 120+ for a barrel of crude.
Ok... so...
A. ever heard of George Bush? can you say veto? he can.
B. Did you forget how powerful big oil is? every year they are brought in front of congress to be pitched softball questions and receive a stern finger wagging about exhorbinant gas prices. Every year the price keeps going up. Even if they wanted to play charity, you know, for a 2 month stretch, they will just tax us on the back end. Corporate shuffle 101, save profits at all cost, especially at the consumer level.
C. is for Clinton. C is also for con-artist. I bet you a C note that she will scheme her way into the nominee spot despite the numbers, and that you will never hear about these gas taxes again.
D. So lets say that that there 304,016,220 people who live in this country. of that, lets be really modest and say that only 60% of that number actually has a car and fills up once a week. That gives us 182 million and change people driving around. the amount of gallons vary from car to car but for the sake of being modest lets just say all these people only have a 15 gallon tank. To be really fair to you and peter pan, lets go ahead and exclude all commerical frieght consumption while we are at it, to drive the point home. 15 gallons times .17 cents times 180 million people, multiplied by the 12 week summer is right about 5,508,000,000. thats trillions.
But wait a second yo! that thar is tax money, and tax money is the gift that keeps on giving. Economics says thar be multiplier effects yeilded from that revenue... or now thanks to saint hillary ... the lack there of since we get a "GOLLY GEE WIZ HOLIDAY!!! YAY!!!" the multiplier effect has as high as 3 to 5 times that 5.5 trillion dollar figure. 15 to 25 trillz and you expect BP to pay the bill? No, that wont happen. EVER. oh and snap we are totally in a RECESSION / Inflationary period whether people want to say it or not.
what sort of fantasy world are the two of you selling here? are we going to just 10's of trillions of dollars evaporate to save us poor folks at the pump? oh i would really love to think so, but in my world people get laid off for less, have their jobs outsourced to save a fraction of a penny in costs. that is the same world you live in too so you bet your G.D America skipping record she is pandering.
Politicians with nothing to lose and everything to gain, pander like a zombie on brains - thats not so unusual in an ever increasing election cycle, so saying she isnt makes your post seem naive.
PS. you are a dummy.
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People Seem to Forget
That is was Bill Clinton who imposed a 5 cent gasoline tax when in office - voting for the measure in Illinois is a bit different than imposing something that has a national impact. A thoughtful candidate would address those hardest hit by the high prices - truckers, the poor - instead of continuing the practice of encouraging all people to guzzle gas - both in huge cars nobody needs to drive and in denying the fact that at some point gas is going to go away and we're going to be in big trouble because we haven't addressed our oil dependence. Clinton knows her tax holiday won't pass so she's offering to then be able to say - I tried. She can then help automakers, big oil companies and get a few votes along the way. She's been in office 7 years - why hasn't she addressed the problem before now if she's so concerned? If Clinton or anybody else really wants to help people then they'l go after the oil companies directly - either temporarily taxing their profits or creating some sort of nationalized system of control over prices. But as OBama has pointed out Clinton has already earmarked windfall profits of the oil companies for other programs. She has said she doesn't want to pay attention to economists - yet has talked about bringing Greenspan back even though he's to blame for much of the current problems. Someone needs to remind Senator Clinton it's 2009 - not 1992 -- and start giving fresh ideas instead of trying to revive a past that isn't coming back (and some of it that needs to stay buried)