Should we really have a gas tax holiday when such a high percentage of bridges in the US need maintenance?

Question

The gas tax holiday proved that many construction jobs would be cut if this gas tax was enacted. That is why it's probably not going to happen.

Answer 1

No tax  holiday if government money is needed for immediate repairs of public works.

Answer 2

The gas tax holiday is simply something thrown out there to take peoples mind off the rising gas prices and the failure of both political parties over the past thirty plus years. Now I don't pay taxes or utilities, (military living in barracks), however I am sure that you pay these same taxes on oil used to heat your home. Just as the chainsaw and lawn mower.

Our roadways are always going to need money to repair them. Cutting funding to these products is not the answer we need. Studies lately have shown that since people are being more conserative with their driving, the revenue that is usually obtained from fuel is not cutting it anymore and in result, public transportation in smaller communities is having to be reduced or on the brink of being cancelled.

I do agree that when anymore the one person is involved in the handling and spending of money that there is the possibility for corruption. It is simply human nature for this to occur.

However, this gas tax holiday is coming to late. Look at the time lines. In the 1970's when we faced the oil embargo gas prices skyrocketed. Prior to the stabilization of oil prices in March 1974, Nixon's Sec. of State proposed Project Independence, which was suppose to rid of us our addiction to foreign oil.

This project, of course,was later scrapped along with all the other promises of every single president after wards about America's energy independent future.

Everyone is being effected by high energy prices, which influence higher prices of every single item the American consumer buys.

The Democratic Congress has barred every attempt to fix our aging problem. Preventing us frm drilling off shore, claiming the 'Evil Oil" has 64 million acres of land that it is "just sitting on idlely to increase their profits." Which by the way hold little to no oil that is recoverable.

Ask yourself a question though... why would they continue sitting with a limited supply of higher priced oil with less peple buying, it would only mske more sense that they would want more oil, so they could sell it cheaper and there for have Americans drive more.

The oil companies have to INVEST money to do the research to find oil. It makes no sense they would simply sit by idely when they are doing nothing other then spending their own money.

We NEED to do everything, wind power, solar power, nuclear power, higher fuel economy on new vehicles, off shore drilling, alternitive energy, and conservation.

Not a single one of these will sustain America alone. Barrack Obama wants higher fuel economy... would have worked...lets say 20 years ago when this was a problem, but no one cared back then.

However John McCain is against Nuclear power, I understand the safety concern. However, there has only been one American incident, Three Mile Island, which is a perfect test of the system working as it was designed to do. Proper security measures and smart politics will protect Nuclear Power Plants.

Answer 3

HAHAHAHAHA!!  A Republican vs. Democrat question!

Those tax breaks don't really work, since most people are still wary of spending the money saved by those tax breaks since the economy is S****y.  Plus, less people are buying gas since they need less since they are doing a better job on fuel economy, so you're not getting that much tax from gas anyway.  On the other hand, we could use other taxes to help fund reconstruction of bridges.  Remember: economics doesn't just cover cash, it also covers psychology, sencse, availability, trends, politics, etc.  It's all one big web, and whoever becomes the next prez is going to have to untangle it while injuring as few people as possible.

Answer 4

People have already paid in spades the road taxes sufficient to build and maintain every d**n road, bridge, tunnel, and overpass for the entire nation! Which mafia pig got the money instead of using it to for what it was intended for anyway? In fact people continue to pay road taxes every time they buy gas whether it is going to be used in a lawn tractor, weed wacker, chain saw,or snow thrower! None of these devices uses a road yet the public pays road taxes every time they are fueled up! It is so d**n corrupt and crooked you can't even imagine the level of deception that is going on at all times!