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mattclearing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 06:05 AM Original message |
Gas Tax Holiday Shows Obama's Experience. He supported it in Illinois and it didn't work. |
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Kokonoe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 06:15 AM Response to Original message |
1. Oil companies will be forced to pay the difference is a lie. |
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mattclearing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 06:49 AM Response to Reply #1 |
9. We're running out and we don't produce enough energy otherwise. |
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flor de jasmim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 06:19 AM Response to Original message |
2. Agreed. Even Krugman agrees! |
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mattclearing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 06:47 AM Response to Reply #2 |
8. I saw it. n/t |
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aquarius dawning (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 06:20 AM Response to Original message |
3. So, in ther words, he voted for the gas tax before he voted against it? |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 06:25 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. He learned. Give him the credit. |
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pinto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 06:29 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Good point. The past is prologue only when you don't learn from it. |
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aquarius dawning (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 06:38 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. You mean he finally learned that he has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from oil companies? |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 06:44 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. stop trying to divert. it's lame. |
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JTFrog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 06:53 AM Response to Reply #7 |
11. Yes that poster does wholeheartedly support it. |
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aquarius dawning (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 07:01 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Why do you insist on being an asshole? Did I piss in your Wheaties? |
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JTFrog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 07:07 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Everytime someone props up McCain they piss in my Wheaties. |
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aquarius dawning (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 07:16 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. I think the Democrats who pay the fewest taxes are the ones who bitch the most about reducing taxes. |
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JTFrog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 07:18 AM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Have fun shopping! |
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aquarius dawning (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 07:21 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. I always do. |
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mattclearing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 08:36 AM Response to Reply #19 |
35. It's like chucking pennies at an oncoming tank. |
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aquarius dawning (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 07:00 AM Response to Reply #7 |
12. I think it's a potentially good idea worth looking at, yes. |
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JTFrog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 07:01 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. And like most Republican ideas, there is no plan to recover those funds. |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 07:18 AM Response to Reply #12 |
20. so you actually think that a $30 savings over three months |
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aquarius dawning (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 07:22 AM Response to Reply #20 |
23. Do you actually think that corporations can't be reigned in? |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 07:26 AM Response to Reply #23 |
25. I KNOW that you can't reign in the oil companies in a month |
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aquarius dawning (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 07:28 AM Response to Reply #20 |
27. Oil prices are a reflection of supply and demand. |
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mattclearing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 06:51 AM Response to Reply #6 |
10. What do the oil companies care if the tax is cut? |
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aquarius dawning (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 07:03 AM Response to Reply #10 |
15. "forcing the oil companies to pay the difference is a pipe dream" |
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mattclearing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 07:14 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Yeah. Much better to believe in someone who panders to you and tells you things that you know |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 07:16 AM Response to Reply #3 |
18. Gas tax holiday is worst idea ever. |
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mattclearing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 08:20 AM Response to Reply #18 |
33. I think it would happen, it just wouldn't accomplish anything good. |
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Buzz Clik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 07:23 AM Response to Original message |
24. Our former governor gas us a tas holiday a while back. |
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mattclearing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 07:34 AM Response to Reply #24 |
29. Infrastructure is so woefully underfunded as it is. |
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graycem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 07:27 AM Response to Original message |
26. His experience |
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mattclearing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 07:36 AM Response to Reply #26 |
30. Some people would rather pander than lead. n/t |
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graycem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 08:03 AM Response to Reply #30 |
32. Yes |
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pdxmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 07:33 AM Response to Original message |
28. Huffington Post has the best analysis I've seen regarding the issue |
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mattclearing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 07:38 AM Response to Reply #28 |
31. I read it. It's clear that this is a bullshit band-aid approach to a major problem. n/t |
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jasmine621 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 08:23 AM Response to Original message |
34. It didn't work because they had no plan to make up the revenue. |
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mattclearing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 09:23 AM Response to Reply #34 |
37. Did you not read my post? |
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kenny blankenship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 08:43 AM Response to Original message |
36. Yes, but why won't he pander to us and our childish belief in simple magical fixes ? |
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mattclearing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 09:24 AM Response to Reply #36 |
38. *Applause* n/t |
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TragedyandHope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-30-08 09:38 AM Response to Original message |
39. Thanks for an informative post! |
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