I’m curious to know just how much money it is that these assholes in Congress actually think that we have left. I mean, first of all we have Barry "Almighty", courtesy of his EPA, jacking up our monthly utility bills all because of bogus ‘climate change’. And at the same time we’re being forced to pay more for gas because Barry refuses to open up federal lands for oil exploration remaining, at the same time, quite content to leave us energy dependent on radical ragheads. And now we have a RINO teaming up with a Democrat in an effort to jack up the cost for gas even more with a higher gas tax. Is this making sense?
Anyway, this most recent proposal for picking our pockets a little further comes to us by way of two U.S. senators. These two boobs recently unveiled their plan which would raise federal taxes on both gasoline and diesel fuel. The basis for their little plan is twofold. First they say it’s because these taxes have not been increased in more than two decades and secondly they pitch their proposal as the solution to Congress' struggle to pay for highway and transit programs. Lord knows there’s nowhere else out of the $3 Trillion that the government will collect in taxes this year that they could possibly come up with the necessary funds.
This idiotic plan is being offered up by Sens. Chris Murphy, Democrat from Conn., and Bob Corker, RINO from Tenn. The plan would raise the 18.4-cents-a-gallon federal gas tax and 24.4-cents-a- gallon diesel tax by 12 cents each over the next two years, and then index the taxes to keep pace with inflation. The plan also calls for offsetting the tax increases with other taxes cuts. Like that’s likely to happen! And to tell you the truth, maybe if gas was still around $1.85 like it was when Barry first came into office, I probably wouldn’t mind all that much if they wanted to jack up the gas tax! But it’s not $1.85, it’s $3.70 a gallon!
Now I’m pretty sure that most everyone out there is well aware that it’s supposed to be the federal Highway Trust Fund that pays for highway and transit aid. And now we’re being told that this is yet another one of those trust funds now being destined to go broke, this one by late August. We’re also told that revenue from gas taxes and other transportation user fees that go into the fund haven't kept pace with federal aid promised to states. Knowing these scumbags as I’m quite sure that we all do, it’s most likely that this "trust fund" was long ago spent on things totally unrelated to what the money was actually to be spent on.
And am I the only one who sees it as being more than a bit ironic that while we’re being told by our illustrious leaders that we should drive less and drive cars that are more fuel efficient, and then when we do, we’re essentially penalized? Because now we’re being told that because we’re not driving enough and that the cars we’re driving are just too darn fuel efficient, we’re just going to have fork over more in taxes to make up for lost revenue. All because the nation's infrastructure is aging, creating greater demand for new and rebuilt roads and bridges and because the cost of construction has increased.
And in trying to justify the further ripping off of the taxpayers, Murphy, the Democrat sponsor of this act of larceny, said in a statement, "For too long, Congress has shied away from taking serious action to update our country's aging infrastructure." This statement went on to say, "We're currently facing a transportation crisis that will only get worse if we don't take bold action to fund the Highway Trust Fund." Ah yes, so here we have yet another crisis for which the only possible solution is to demand that an already cash-strapped public fork over more money. That seems to be the answer for just about everything.
And then we have his partner in crime, RINO Corker who in offering up his idiotic rationale for raising the gas tax, said, "Congress should be embarrassed that it has played chicken with the Highway Trust Fund and allowed it to become one of the largest budgeting failures in the federal government." Ok, so once again we the taxpayers are left holding the bag because of gross congressional incompetence. Like I mentioned earlier, the government is projected to take in over $3 Trillion in tax revenue in fiscal year 2014. At what point should be able to consider ourselves to have ‘contributed’ enough to the running of our government?
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