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"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message hlink.net... The topic started out as a way to end our dependence on imported oil. The whole gas tax idea is simply a way to provide an incentive to conserve. A better and much more efficient way would be to encourge PRODUCTION. What's more, encouragement to conserve has many pitfalls when under a bureaucratic blanket. "The road to hell is paved with good intentions". My only point is that it would be relatively easy to end our dependence on imported oil if we really wanted to do it. It would be if the MARKET made that determination, rather than bureaucrats and politicians and their cronies. Collecting such a tax would be fairly easy since there is already a federal tax on gasoline, only the amount would be changed. I agree that the refunding portion would be problematic. That's the problem: Collection is easy, the subsequent portions ALWAYS bogs down. A good example is the state lotteries -- after a year or two the funds mainly go into the general fund where the looting commences. |
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