Re: BEFORE Trying To Simply Hike the Fuel Tax . . .

On Sun, 04 May 2008 09:16:36 -0700, orangatang1 wrote:

> On 3 May, 08:11, BretCah...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>> The deal needs to include a revenue neutral IRS rebate to cover the
>> increase in federal fuel taxes.
>>
>> The overall effect is drivers would be paid to use less fuel.
>>
>> Anyone who shifts away from driving or at least from driving low mpg
>> vehicles would come out ahead economically and anyone who really
>> needed to drive to work or drive a truck to work would still be able
>> to afford it.
>>
>> Bret Cahill
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> Using taxes to make people do what you want is a very slippery slope.

What an utterly ridiculous statement.  A redistribution of that which
actually belongs to everyone does not FORCE people to do anything at all.
What people do with the tax refund is up to them.  The reclaiming of that
which they were deprived in the first place is merely a "softer" approach
than putting the robbers in jail.  Do you also think that "encouraging"
people to conduct themselves within the moral dictates of the society by
putting offenders in jail is a slippery slope?

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