Would you support a $1.00 gas tax?
Mike Jackson of AutoNation thinks the gas tax should be increased by $1.00 per gallon to get American gasoline consumption under control (more). In reality, gas taxes in America are low, would raising them be a good idea?
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posted by Dahcredyns @ 11:39 AM
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AAAAHHHH!!! No, please don't. I'm barely getting by as it is. I already have to live 30 miles from work in order to afford my house. I have a car that gets 30 miles a gallon. But I don't drive any more than I have to. I've figured it out before and I go through about 1100 gallons of gas a year. My life's budget, with no entertainment, is already cutting it close enough that I couldn't afford the extra $1100. That would be taking food off of my already Aldi lifestyle.
One idea is that the gas tax would offer a rebate at the end of the year. The gas tax is meant to change vehicle buying and driving behaviors, not to cause financial hardship.
I'm not a fan of the plan either. I think we should use incentives to change behavior, such as on the clean vehicle tax credit.
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