TroglodyteScholar
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Sun Sep-04-05 09:56 AM
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Georgia: Gov. suspends gasoline taxes, gas stations maintain high prices |
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So in a poorly-thought-out effort to ease the economic burden on Georgia's citizens, the governor chose to waive all gasoline taxes beginning on Friday night. Not surprisingly, none of the savings are being passed to the consumer. Gas stations are simply swallowing up the would-be tax money as profits. Is this kind of thing happening anywhere else?
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liberaliraqvet26
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Sun Sep-04-05 09:58 AM
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1. we all knew that would happen... |
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more for BIG OIL less for road construction
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ayeshahaqqiqa
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Sun Sep-04-05 09:59 AM
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2. If I were the governor, |
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I'd declare that profiteering and would be nailing the stations.
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Sun Sep-04-05 09:59 AM
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3. Oil companies to GA gov: thanks! now we can raise our prices higher and |
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Edited on Sun Sep-04-05 10:00 AM by bushisanidiot
make an even BIGGER profit!!
big oil is looting the american workers wallets.. the gas tax is nothing but a miniscule drop in a bucket compared to the profit they are making off of our suffering.
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Sun Sep-04-05 10:00 AM
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4. In the past Michigan's governor |
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has pressed charges against stations, I know others have too.
Honestly I don't know if the laws are local...but if so Georgia better pass a law against that pronto.
Are these stations now having to pay that much more to get the gas or is it just profiteering?
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Sun Sep-04-05 10:00 AM
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5. He froze TAXES and not PRICES. That wasn't too bright. |
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Sun Sep-04-05 10:04 AM
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6. Well once the flat tax is in place we won't need the gas tax revenue |
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