PBS Poll-435
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Thu Dec-03-09 02:47 PM
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Poll question: I just bought 10 gallons of gasoline for my car. Where is the federal gas tax $$$ going? |
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Just where is that $1.84 going? :shrug:
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Thu Dec-03-09 02:49 PM
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1. Where do you get such cheap gas? |
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Our cheapest averages around $3 a gallon.
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Thu Dec-03-09 02:51 PM
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4. I paid $2.45 and 9/10ths per gallon |
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There are state and Federal taxes in that price.
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Fri Dec-04-09 03:46 PM
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27. Then, a better question is "Where is the rest of the money going?" |
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By far the majority of it is going to oil companies.
Is that OK with you?
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MNDemNY
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Thu Dec-03-09 02:50 PM
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2. I don't think there is $1.84 in Federal gas taxes. |
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Thu Dec-03-09 02:51 PM
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10 gallons...
Well you do the math. (Again)
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MNDemNY
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Thu Dec-03-09 02:53 PM
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5. 18.40 would be a better federal tax. |
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Thu Dec-03-09 08:00 PM
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9. Do you not think that a tax that high would hurt the working poor? |
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Fri Dec-04-09 07:48 AM
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12. It would 'hurt " lot's of folks, but I think it's long term benefits would be worth the sacrifice. |
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Fri Dec-04-09 04:08 PM
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My place of employment would be finished. Do you know that the dictionary is using your pictur next to ignorance. Please sacrifice yourself and your family first before you make that decision for other.s
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Fri Dec-04-09 10:41 PM
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35. Please share some of what you're smoking with the rest of us. |
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Fri Dec-04-09 02:37 PM
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18. It wouldn't just hur the working poor |
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It would be devastating to American businesses. It would result in more job losses and lower wages, higher prices for all products and a lower standard of living for all but the very wealthy.
Not seeing any benefits....
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MNDemNY
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Fri Dec-04-09 03:23 PM
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"cheap" gas has done more harm to this nation than any Republican administration ever did. Sprawl, poor public transport, pollution, big cars, dependence on foreign oil.....the list goes on.
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Fri Dec-04-09 04:25 PM
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31. destroyed passenger rail service |
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gas has ALWAYS been too cheap
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Fri Dec-04-09 10:37 PM
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The prices of all goods and all services would skyrocket. Wages would be stagnant. Unemployment would rise.
And most importantly, if we tried to cram through a tax of that magnitude, we would never be elected to any office for decades. Americans don't like to be treated like children. When you punish them for "their own good", the consequences can be pretty horrific.
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Thu Dec-03-09 08:37 PM
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MNDemNY
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Fri Dec-04-09 07:49 AM
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13. Force the move from oil. Painful, but a good move . |
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Fri Dec-04-09 09:17 AM
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14. And it needn't happen all at once. |
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A gradual tax increase could have shifted us off oil already, or gotten us much farther along the path.
We have merely fucked around for several decades.
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MNDemNY
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Fri Dec-04-09 10:38 AM
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17. People did not die from $4.25 gas a year ago, they'll live now. |
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A kick in tha nads is what is needed, IMO.
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Fri Dec-04-09 02:54 PM
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19. well do you drive, do you have to drive and how far do you have too |
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its always interesting to see that most people who are for much higher gas taxes tend to be people who dont drive or live with public transport systems, i have a commute of 100 miles and there is no way i can use public transport so i want low gas prices...
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MNDemNY
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Fri Dec-04-09 03:05 PM
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20. Yes, yes, about 400 miles per week. Why? |
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Edited on Fri Dec-04-09 03:08 PM by MNDemNY
I said it would be painful;, but 2 wars in the middle east, massive debt to China, not to mention global warming are the price of "cheap gas" Not so "cheap" now is it??? Why should the entire country "subsidize" your "cheap" gas at such a cost??Too bad, you lived through the $4+ gas, you can do it again.I suppose you drive a big pick up truck, and carry nothing but your lunch.
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Fri Dec-04-09 03:18 PM
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21. no i carry more than my lunch, $4 a gallon for me was not to much, i can afford it |
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but there are lots of people who cant.
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MNDemNY
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Fri Dec-04-09 03:25 PM
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23. It will result in major changes, that is the point. |
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Should their be "accommodations " made for need? Yes.
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Fri Dec-04-09 03:33 PM
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24. what is need, who decides what need is, so you really want someone else deciding if your need is |
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enough, i think the most important thing should be to bring other techs online and let people make their own choices rather than force $10 a gallon gas on people frinstance...
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MNDemNY
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Fri Dec-04-09 03:36 PM
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25. Happens all the time. |
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Man you must really like you Hummer!!! " I'm a fucking American, and I have a RIGHT to cheap gas!!"......Yeehaw cowboy!
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Fri Dec-04-09 03:43 PM
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26. lol what makes you think i have a hummer, i guess you think that you should decide who drives what |
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how much each person should pay for their gas and you should decide if their need is acceptable.. not sure if i want you deciding what i can drive, when or where.....
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Fri Dec-04-09 03:47 PM
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Fri Dec-04-09 03:52 PM
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Fri Dec-04-09 05:08 PM
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32. Folks who were just getting by a year ago, however... |
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...might be broken by $4.25 right now.
Perhaps our figurative nad-kicking ought to be targeted farther up the socioeconomic scale.
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Thu Dec-03-09 03:03 PM
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6. If I was paying $1.84/gallon |
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I wouldn't give a shit because the gas is so damned cheap.
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Thu Dec-03-09 03:08 PM
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7. It is very clear in the OP that the $1.84 out of the $25.49 that I paid |
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was the Federal gasoline tax.
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Thu Dec-03-09 03:20 PM
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8. Well not very clear but thx for clearing it up. n/t |
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Thu Dec-03-09 08:48 PM
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11. Better question: How much of your tax money in general is going toward |
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military and corporate presence all over the world in order to bring that gallon of gas to you.
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Fri Dec-04-09 09:38 AM
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16. Does the federal telephone tax still go straight to "Defense"? |
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I know the phone tax was initiated to help fund Vietnam and has remained. I have friends who are tax resisters and one of their "easy ways to get started in tax resisting" is to begin to not pay the federal tax portion of your phone bill. Include a note to the phone company saying "I refuse to pay the Federal tax portion of this phone bill because I do not want to help fund wars."
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Fri Dec-04-09 09:25 AM
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15. Where is the "up your ass" option? |
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Fri Dec-04-09 06:08 PM
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One way or another, they eventually will get it all.
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