Attention, States mulling gas tax suspension...don't be stupid!

[Atman]

Now is not the time for the states to be taking money out of their own coffers to pay for the profiteering and blundering of Big Oil BushCo and his Bumbling Band of Cronies. Fuck that!

Pass laws instead which shift the cost burden onto those who've reaped embarrassing riches off the pain and suffering of so many, the ones who rely on this LA for the ports and refineries which make them their profits. Where the hell are they? Where the hell is the president of Exxon/Mobil stepping up to the plate and donating 1/10th of 1% of it's last-quarter profits to the hurricane relief effort? Where?

No, I implore you...do NOT shift yet another burden onto that segment of society least able to absorb more pain. It is simply wrong, and that is what a tax cut on gasoline would be -- taking money out of the state coffers already near-empty after years of BushCo budget busting and tax cuts. Shifting tax funds in ways which merely enable price-gouging oil companies, and the bailing out of a federal government which should be dealing with this issue in the first place, seems to me to be a short sighted approach at a time when so much fiscal uncertainty looms.

[RubyDuby in GA]

1. Too late

The stupid ass Republican governor of GA already has. And he had to call an emergency week-long session of the legislature to showcase his little decree. Odd thing is, this was to be a big fundraising week for the Dem candidates running against him. Funny how that works out.........

[RebelOne]

5. And it still hasn't brought the gas prices down much.

[applegrove]

2. This may have been "one of the payoffs". Big Oil hates the gas

tax. Anything that makes people stop & think about buying their product is evil. Plus consumption tax hurts their plan to sink government in a bathtub.

Anything that increases the debt is something that will help stop a Democratic President from 'improving policy' in the future. Afterall - we all have to learn that the "public good" doesn't exist and we need to learn to hate government.

[GOPisEvil]

3. Oh, by all means, let's bankrupt the states to lower gas prices.

That way people buy more gas, and oil company profits increase.

You have GOT to me kidding me. States are actually contemplating this idiocy?

[Atman]

4. Many states are

It is an easy way for politicians to pander to their constituencies, after all. To be the guy who lowered gas prices in your district...what pol could resist it? Posing for pictures with babies, next to gas all the way back down to $2.59, and we'll be calling him a hero.