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| Hey! I just listen to the experts, like Alan Greenspan who said it was a national security issue. However, seeing as a large majority of middle eastern countries, who support terrorism, are also oil producing countries, one can only assume they use the revenues generated by the oil they sell to give to terrorist organizations. You reduce their revenues by slowing demand, you reduce the amount they're able to give to terrorists. It won't solve terrorism, but it certainly won't hurt it. |
Do I detect a sense of sarcasm in the description of Alan Greenspan as an "expert"? If not...then I apologize...
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Please do name some of these Middle Eastern countries who "support terrorism" (and try to mask the Fox New-esque propaganda while doing so). No, that wasn't an invitation to literally start listing countries, I'm just saying that it's a little incurious of you to generalize Middle Eastern countries like that, then deduce that they are just funneling oil profits to terrorists. I'm not really challenging anything here specifically, just pointing out that it's much more complicated than that.
Regardless, there are better ways to get off of imported oil than just raising taxes (emphasis on imported oil in general, not specifying from where, as a reference to U.S. energy independence). Wind, solar, water, coal, nuclear, increased domestic drilling, higher efficiency standards, etc. There are countless other ways to curb the United States' addiction to foreign oil other than raising gas taxes.
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Not to mention, lets just imagine. Assume somehow the federal budget has a surplus. This means, they can reduce taxation in other areas, like on our income tax, which allows us to increase our spending in other areas.
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So...how would that not just be trading taxes for other taxes? I honestly don't see income taxes going down significantly any time soon. Raising the gas tax would not give the government's tax revenue THAT much of a boost that we'll have a surplus. You forget, it's going to cost a lot to fix everything Bush has screwed up.
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Wouldn't it be nice to actually choose what you get taxed on based on your consumption?
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...is that not the exact concept behind sales tax?