your tax dollarsFollow

ok i heard today from friend at work that gas prices had risen (i live in a dugeon and leave onece a day to go to work). Also taxes for grorcies are apperently going to go up too. All so that we can use our hard earned money to pay for the rebuilding of Iraq. Dont know how much of this is true but if it is true i am finding it to complete BS. We have problems controlling welfare in our own coutnry now we take it global? As i recall i didnt see ne Iraqs tring to help us out after 911 and our reason for going there in the frist place was too try to keep a sequal of 911 from happing. As i see it weve done that now lets treat Iraq as we did Germany in WWII. Leave a few countires milltary presnet and keep them from haveing a milltary of there own for near 100 years. It worked out fine then, and Germany has become a great country because of it (in some ways better than America.)
But if i am wrong about the tax increase plz some one correct me and disregrad the post.

Actually there's lots of countries with lower fuel taxes and prices. Where do you get this stuff?

Federal taxes on gasoline are pretty low. Probably not the "lowest in the world", but we do get gas very cheap.

It's the state and local taxes and additional requirements that drive up the cost at the pump. The reason Californians pays so much at the pump is because we passed all these additional clean air bills that require special additives to be added to the fuel, thus increasing the cost (and creating a demand problem since quantities of fuel to have the additive added have to be parcelled out ahead of time to keep the fuel cost effective nationwide).

There are also many state which apply sales taxes to groceries. California is one state that does not.

However Taxes going up seem to be an inevatability. Iraq is just an excuse. Even if it is a "temporary tax" our children and grandchildren will probably still be paying it long after we are dead.

For our esteemed government seems to think is knows how to spend your money better than you do.

Almost afraid to ask the question, but how many here would be in favor of a Flat rate income tax?





Edited, Thu May 6 21:54:57 2004 by Elawise

I'll admit I don't know our tax structure well enough to weigh in on the flat tax vs. progressive tax debate.

No, you wouldn't. The Republican party machine would develop some assanine propaganda explaining how flat taxes were evil and you'd swallow it hook, line, and sinker.

My numbers were off by a factor of like a million. Using a calculat\or, one sec.

Edited, Fri May 7 20:57:59 2004 by Smasharoo