Why The Un Is A Joke

[RawAlex]

GiGi, I would giggle if they weren't all that serious about it.

Vick, low fuel prices in the US are artificial, and they hurt your economy more than you can imagine. They hit you in the pocket book as well, you just don't know it.

How many federal tax dollars are spent per year for roads (just highways!)? How much does that cost each taxpayer? Gas taxes shift the burden from taxpayers to road users - and collects taxes from all those visitors that come to your country each year - millions of tourists, driving rental cars, helping to pay for the roads that they travel on for free.

Inflation is a non-issue, because the total costs for roads won't move, just the burden - in the end, the same money is collected, possibly from different people. As a "user pays" type tax, it is exactly the sort of thing the non-socialists are interested in. Instead of everyone pays, it becomes the end user pays.

Yes, you would see some price increases for shipped goods - but there would also be more money in the pockets of americans as the tax rate drops to reflect the lower budger requirements of the roads... collection an extra couple of billion on one side, you can drop the public's taxes by a couple of billion on the other side.

More importantly for all you "well to do americans", you can continue to enjoy your big cars, SUVs, and other trappings of the american way without issue, you rights are not being cut off.... your standard of living isn't being dropped...

Isn't "user pays" a Conservative pillar?

Alex