Why are we still paying for the fuel surcharge that was imposed because of the Suez Crisis?

Question

Why are we still paying for the fuel surcharge that was imposed because of the Suez Crisis?

Answer 1

Given that that was lifted in 1957, I'd hazard the guess that we aren't.....

Answer 2

Because It has been transformed into the Middle-east crisis, threatenning to be a global crisis soon enough.

Answer 3

Once a "temporary" tax is passed by Congress, it's NEVER repealed.  That's an immutable law of nature.  Taxes applied to telephone use passed during WWII are (as far as I know) still levied.  It's kind of like those "temporary" school buildings that are still there forty years later.

Answer 4

Which fuel surcharge?  We pay fuel duty to help pay for the immigrants to have interpreters, and send their kids to school...

Answer 5

Same reason we're still paying income tax more than 200 years after it was imposed to pay for fighting Napoleon.