FLCC> Is the NY State Senate nuts?

[rob at cginy.net]

"You're not suggesting, are you, that a 3 month gas tax holiday would
keep anyone from falling off the edge of anything?"

Not at all.  I don't support the tax suspension.  I am merely replying to
Andrej's statement that taxes should be raised in an attempt to bring
about substantive energy policy and societal change.
-- 
"Carpe Diem, quam minimum credula postero"
-Horace

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> On May 8, 2008, at 1:21 PM, rob at cginy.net wrote:
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>>  The question I can't ignore is ow many people are
>> going to fall off the edge of society in the interim?  Many, many
>> people
>> are scraping by as it is and can't bear any more burden.
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> You're not suggesting, are you, that a 3 month gas tax holiday would
> keep anyone from falling off the edge of anything?
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> What it would do is reduce state and local government's fiscal
> ability to maintain or improve its infrastructure, and compound the
> problems we're already having trying to provide public services,
> ranging from police and fire to schools and to the social safety net,
> all of which help us keep from falling of the edge.
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> Any erosion of the state and local government's ability to maintain
> its roads is very likely to put some of us cyclists quite literally
> over the edge.  There would be a fair number of cycling friendly
> projects ranging from improved signage to completion of rail-trail
> projects likely to go over the edge as well.
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> The Senate didn't even address the fiscal responsibility issue.
> Again, here's the Senate's own summary of its homework on this front
> prior to passage of the gas tax holiday bill:
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> "FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
> "To be determined.
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> "LOCAL FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
> "To be determined."
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> Determined how?  By one-off experiment on the citizens and taxpayers
> of the State of New York?
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