According to this FoxNews article, there are members of Congress quietly talking about INCREASING the Federal Gas Tax another Dime per gallon?
Apparently there’s not enough money in the Highway Trust Fund, so at this time of record high gas prices and an economy on verge of recession, our leaders are actually considering sticking it to us even more with another 10 cent increase at the pump. In North Carolina that would mean we would pay about 77 cents per gallon in taxes between the federal and state government. That’s too much.
The government is already propping up fuel prices by refusing to allow offshore and ANWR drilling in this country. Until they do something to open up our supplies and reduce our dependency on foreign oil, they don’t deserve the taxes they currently get on fuel sales, much less a 54.35% increase.
As citizens, we must demand better. Americans can’t afford the price at the pump now. As a country we can’t afford to keep our heads buried in Arabian sand. The high prices at our pumps are a direct result of our legislators and the environmental lobbies failing to allow us to drill at home. Those high prices are causing the costs of virtually all other goods and services to increase. When the dollar is weak, housing is in crisis, jobs are on the line and our economy is faltering… now is not the time to be asleep on the job and refuse to allow American’s to take care of themselves. And now is certainly not the time to pile on and make it even harder for working Americans to afford the basic necessities or fill up at the pump. Our representatives are failing us miserably and are woefully out of touch. Its time they wake up to the realities facing real Americans, or step aside and let someone else take the wheel.
Enough is enough.
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