FLCC> Is the NY State Senate nuts?

[rob at cginy.net]

>>This is the main reason imho why the tax reduction is madness. Gas taxes
>>should be *increased* to address the true issues.

I don't necessarily agree.  That's a rather short-sighted solution.

While it's very true that we pay FAR less than many other 1st world
countries for gasoline, our society is SO car-dependent that simply
raising the prices to where we can't afford to drive is not.  If the tazes
are raised that cost will not only hit you at the gas pump, it will hit
you at the grocery store/department store/hardware store/pub because
food/clothes/hammers/beer will cost that much more to transport to a
retailer near you.  No matter what, the poor schlub barely making ends
meet will be the one to bear the brunt of that burden.

I totally agree that something needs to be done, should have been done
years ago, to limit our dependence on oil but huge drastic changes to the
cost could ripple out to disrupt the entire economy as gas prices dictate
part of the cost of almost every thing we need or want.  Simply punishing
the consumer isn't an effective answer.  We need to work from the top
down, not the other way.



-- 
"Carpe Diem, quam minimum credula postero"
-Horace

> Mike F wrote:
>> You said
>> > the waste of an opportunity to let the market, for once, work
>> > its so-called magic in the right direction.
>>
>> Do you really think that anything resembling a free market applies to
>> the handling of gasoline or oil in our economy?
> Whether free or not, if gas is expensive enough it *will* lead to
> reduced use of gas. In this sense, the market would lead to desirable
> consequences in this case.
>
> This is the main reason imho why the tax reduction is madness. Gas taxes
> should be *increased* to address the true issues.
>
> Andrejs
>
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