Hillary Supporters... Defend the Gas Tax "Holiday" Here......

[scheming daemons]

I truly want to hear the rationale from someone who thinks this is a good idea.


It is a bad idea on so many levels, that it's laughable.


But I want to hear a reasoned explanation as to why you think it's a good idea. Prove to us that Hillary supporters are not "Low-Information Voters".


Make your case.

[cliffordu]

1. Crickets.....

[rodeodance]

12. you are an example of immature posters who just are here to disrupt. --very immature

[scheming daemons]

16. Well then.... answer the OP.... tell us why the gas tax holiday is a good idea.....

[cliffordu]

26. You keep saying that and yet, I see no answer from you.

[goldcanyonaz]

2. I would save $179.00 during the gas tax vacation. I drive a lot though.

[scheming daemons]

8. No... you wouldn't... and here's why....

As soon as Hillary's "windfall tax" on the oil companies (in order to replace the funds lost from the gas tax) kicks in, the oil companies will raise their prices accordingly.

The Federal gas tax is 18 cents per gallon.

[VolcanoJen]

11. Gotta love that "Free Market"

They're always providing Solutions For America.

;-)

[cliffordu]

23. lol yep!!

fock, I love this board. I really and truly do!


:rofl: :rofl:

[Hoof Hearted]

35. Because your scrawny-assed messiah says so? Bzzzzzzzt. The fuck you were ever looking for honest

conversation. Utterly dishonest statement.

[ThatPoshGirl]

37. How do you figure?

In order to save $179 you would have to buy 994 gallons of gas. Unless you are driving a hummer with really, really crappy fuel mileage that would mean you are driving over 19000 miles. That is like driving across country 7 times...in three months. Even if the oil companies didn't raise the prices (which they would) you still could not possibly save that much!

[Secret_Society]

3. As an HRC supporter I do not support the gas tax break

But, of course, no one will find a politician who they agree with 100% of the time. I do think it could be useful to low income workers, who drive the furthest to work, and truckers. On the whole, however, it is a politically driven position. Bu we must remember that this is still politics and it is a good "political" position.

[RBInMaine]

7. Thanks at least for your honesty on this one. Good for you.

[SoxFan]

29. Points for honesty

:thumbsup:

[Cant trust em]

4. I tried this yesterday

most of the Clinton supporters who responded thought it was dumb. There is some logic in this universe after all.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5771394

[RBInMaine]

5. THE GAS TAX "HOLIDAY" IS THE EPITOME OF SILLY SEASON !!

[smalll]

6. No, it's the Obamatrons who have to "Defend the Gas Tax" --

Hillary's the one who's against it. :)
On Edit: Ooh! You edited! No fair! ;)

[rgbecker]

9. Hillary's and McSame's Plan will swing Truck and Taxi Drivers to their side!

Must be hundred's of them, all across the nation.

Say they actually save the entire $.18/gallon and everything else stays the same:

The trucker who drives 600 miles in his 10 mpg truck uses 60 gallons/day saves $10.80.

Bingo! Another voter for Clinton. See, it works just like all the Sunni's fighting for Bush in Iraq, now that we're paying them $10.00 a day. It's the wonder of the free enterprise system. Says so right in the Bible.

[scheming daemons]

13. The minute the tax goes away, and Hillary puts a "windfall tax" on the oil companies..the price will

go up!

Wiping out the benefit of the tax holiday.

[NanceGreggs]

21. Welcome to DU ...

... :rofl:

[Andy823]

31. Reality

Is that even if congress passed it, and they never will, Bush would veto a windfall tax on big oil! She may be able to con people into buying her lies, but reality is there will be no bill this year, period! It's just a cheap trick to fool the voters! Of course there is a sucker born every minute they say!

[Bigleaf]

10. This says it all.

Some Dkos member made it.

[scheming daemons]

14. EXACTLY!

[VolcanoJen]

15. There's also that pesky "It's never going to happen" issue.

Steny Hoyer and the White House both agree that it's a non-starter. It's Fantasy Land. Space Mountain. The Matterhorn. The Haunted Mansion.

[scheming daemons]

17. No.... but it tells us where Hillary and McCain are coming from... .and that's a place...

where the laws of economics are suspended.

[Armstead]

18. It sounds good in theory. But it's cruel to voters...

Let's say a strapped voter choose Hillary based on this.

Her idea has a snowball's chance in hell of ever getting passed this summer. Democrats are against it. Bush will veto it.

[scheming daemons]

19. Actually... it is VERY BAD in theory.... Economic Theory 101.... the Basics....

Which is why EVERY economist who's been asked has said this is a HORRIBLE idea.



Now... we already knew that McCain doesn't "know much about economics"... he said so himself.



But Hillary is proving to be just as deficient when it comes to understanding how the economic world works.

[Armstead]

22. Well that was an unfortunate choice of words

I know it sounds bad in theory too.

What I meant was it sounds good in theory to voters who aren't aware of such things.

[bluestateguy]

20. I don't support it, but I do understand why she is doing this

Obama voters are upscale suburbanites for whom high gas prices are a mere inconvenience, not a crippling financial blow. The other half of the Obama base is in the big cities where people can take public transportation everywhere, thereby reducing the pinch of the high gas prices.

The Hillary voters are downscale people who perhaps do not live in a major city that would give them access to public transit. Since they are more downscale, they may have older, less fuel efficient cars. Point is, her voters are hurt a lot more by the high gas prices.

[AZBlue]

24. I'm an Obama supporter who can't make her bills this month and freaks out over every gas penny.

And, to boot, I think the "gas holiday" is a moronic idea.

Guess you don't "understand"...much.

[scheming daemons]

27. A gas tax holiday will not lower their costs! Her plan includes a windfall tax on oil companies...

...and they will pass that cost onto us in the form of higher prices... wiping out the benefits of the gas tax holiday.

...and then... when the holiday ends, the prices will be even higher!



It's bad for HER voters too.....

[tammywammy]

28. I live in a city wtih 300,000+ people and no public transportation

I'd save a whopping $30 with a gas tax holiday that's if the oil companies don't increase the cost to pay for this windfall tax.

In reality you're not going to save anything.

[John Q. Citizen]

30. Obama supporters are educated. Only dummies would vote for such sucker bait.

That's why McCain came up with the idea.

By the way. I live in small town/rural America.

But I'm not a dummy. Hillary and McCain are pandering to their base. Dummies.

[ccharles000]

25. I don't care one way or the other.

[quantass]

32. Hillary can win Primaries with this Silly Scam?!? Are Americans this incompetent?

Im Canadian and i really hope the average american isn't like this because OMG you guys are setting yourself up to become a 4th-world country.

[scheming daemons]

33. Sadly.... two decades of right-wing radio has dumbed-down the electorate...

[Skip Intro]

34. "Prove to us that Hillary supporters are not "Low-Information Voters"."

Why the fuck should I care what label you pin on me?


Why should I have to prove to you that I meet some bullshit, arbitrary, elitist bar that you created?


Easy with your demands.

[Hoof Hearted]

36. Can I get an AMEN!

[Palatino]

38. Even Krugman is against the idea

And he favors Clinton.