B een calling C-SPAN and can't get through. (Phombo) I am pissed!! [View All]

[cantstandbush]

Why can't someone explain that the Republicans who always decry TAXES on gasoline are not being honest with the public when they say the taxes benefit only "government." Yes, that is true, but it benefits the public when the taxes go to states and municpalities and when it goes to the Federal government don't they realize that the taxes go to fund the military machine that fights the wars abroad so that the oil companies can continue to get the oil and make the huge profits? It's not like gasoline taxes go into the pockets of a bunch of poor and elderly standing in welfare lines but that is the picture that Republicans always want the public to see when it comes to taxes. It's the strawman that set up to knock down to make people believe that taxes are bad...when they really mean that taxes on THEIR (conservatives) wealth are bad.