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that is exactly who he is and where he comes from. His mother was a well off, academic radical and he was the black liberal savior from almost the beginning of his life.

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One of the most regressive and hurtful taxes there is the gas tax. Everybody pays the same amount. In fact the poor pay more because they can not afford the expensive hybrid like the rich guys. I love seeing a Republican step up and frame the narrative instead of always having to play defense.


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We the People remain in charge but McCain responded to the outrage and appears to have gotten the message that expressing faux public outrage against fellow republicans due to fear of the msm pc police is wrong and also counter productive. I think he sees that he need not fear them maybe bfor the first time. Moreover, he is directing real and deserved such outrage at liberals.

I would also say this. I think it would be counter productive for us conservatives, on balance, to put upside down stickers on cars and yard signs, due to its effect on non-political voters.

more later

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I would also say this. I think it would be counter productive for us conservatives, on balance, to put upside down stickers on cars and yard signs, due to its effect on non-political voters.

Good to see others recognize the problem with this campaign. Hope the sense spreads.

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I'd be interested in Dave's input on it but haven't heard from him yet.

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Have patience with him. He had been unemployed for quite some time.

Steve is now employed, I'm really not sure what Dave's situation is.

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I hope to heck if he gets elected he tries to zero out this abusive scam.

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He can afford a bit of socialism, the poor can't

I'll be making mention of this post today, as my own official departure (for now) from the Hinz campaign at Independent Thinking.

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http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/29/gas-tax-follies/
"Why doesn’t cutting the gas tax this summer make sense? It’s Econ 101 tax incidence theory: if the supply of a good is more or less unresponsive to the price, the price to consumers will always rise until the quantity demanded falls to match the quantity supplied. Cut taxes, and all that happens is that the pretax price rises by the same amount."

And Heritage has pretty good article on Tax Incidence
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Taxes/cda04-12.cfm
"Taxes affect tax­payers’ behavior, triggering economic changes that regularly shift some or even the entire economic burden of a tax to other parties, and alter total out­put and incomes. Taxes reduce and distort the mix of what people are willing to produce in their roles as workers, savers, and investors. Taxes increase what these producers seek to charge for their ser­vices or products. Changes in the prices and quan­tities of output in turn affect people in their roles as consumers when they try to spend their incomes. The lost output and other consequences of taxation impose additional costs on the taxpay­ers that are not reflected in the mere dollar amounts of the tax collections."

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Thanks for the "econ 101" shot.

I will respond with a "Conservative 101". Any time the government reduces taxes, it is a good thing. Where did I say I wanted the price of gas to fall? I said I wanted the tax on gas reduced. Also, I think your theory is bogus. We have seen the demand for gas to this point to be about as inelastic (econ 102 term) as supply. So it stands to reason that many people that MUST pay for x amount of gas a week, will have more money for other things.

I am well aware that cutting taxes will at some point need to go hand in hand with a reduction in government spending. I don't mind cutting taxes first, think of it as tough love for the feds.

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On your point about reducing taxes, who cares if taxes are reduced if prices are the same. I believe that to be "insensitive" to the poor.
Furthermore, this is not my theory. I cited heritage.org which provided sufficient amount of info on the "tax incidence" and heritage.org isn't a very liberal website.
As long as the demand exists, the tax cut will do nothing. If people continue to consume gas ravenously, the prices will shoot up.
and even if it does something, then right after the tax holiday we'll be back where we were a couple months ago. High gas prices and an insatiable demand, ultimately, solving nothing.

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It takes alot of fuel to fill up my pickup...why wouldn't I want to save a little doe...I can't eat at Long Jon Silvers every night..can I? Your just Anti-taxcut.

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across the border from nc to sc
18 cents is the difference in state gas tax
the same amount of the fed gas tax

it is not bogus

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18 cents less, if I'm doing the math correctly, would save less than 3 dollars per fill-up. If you think that's going to make a difference in driving habits, then we'll just have to disagree. Driving 5 miles probably saved you less than 2 dollars. You probably have a Prius though, so maybe more?

Groups of people gossip about gas prices all the time. I've known people to do exactly what gamecock has said. They will drive to where prices are lower. If you really think that $3 buck is nothing, multiply that $3 bucks by the number of fill ups per week. Then multiply it by the number of cars on the road. That's millions of dollars that consumers can use on other goods and services.