The Real Patriot Act

I have to agree with the main point of this article to increase the gas tax. Given that it would be phased in incrementally and slowly with an equal overall decrease in income taxes spread across the board for both personal and corporate tax. While people complain about the taxes on gasoline they are currently not high enough to even pay for the support of the road system not to mention the offset of pollution created by gas vehicles. Right now America is essentially sending out a little welfare check every time someone fills up the tank in two ways. First by funding roads from income taxes and second from allowing those who want to pollute more than the average to pollute without expense. Why should the majority pay for the minority?

I must disagree that exceptions should be given to any individuals or industries. Why should they get any exemption if they use a resource (roads or fresh air) they should pay like everyone else? All taxes are eventually paid for by the end consumer and if a person wants their fresh produce trucked in from California they should pay for all the costs associated with that produce. Why should one industry be subsidized over another, let the market decide what it wants to pay.

Another bonus of the decrease of America’s gas consumption, that he fails to mention, is that a shift upwards in pre-taxed gas prices would have less of an overall effect on the economy because gas will become a smaller component of the economy.

ESPN.com: GEN - Limbaugh resigns from ESPN

The worst part about this is that Rush is going to go on and on about how he was victimized by the liberal media. He probably quit because he wanted this to die down before his legal problems surfaced.

No one under the age of 50 goes by the name of Dick. Well there is one exception. I met a guy at a wedding in Myrtle Beach about five years ago whose name was Dick and he was only 25 years old and a nice guy at that. But other than him there is no one under 50 that goes by the name of Dick. And the thing about it is that about 50% of the time when you have a guy named Dick his last name is something like Long, Short or Wood something or other. I have met not one but two guys named Dick Seaman. What were their parents thinking? I am guessing that before about 50 years dick was just a name and then some guy named Dick, who must have been, well, a real prick, had a body part named after him.