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About LinkBacksReid“At this point, the caucus is not ready to sign off on a gas tax or any tax increase,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters Thursday. The issue came up as Democrats push a multi-year transportation authorization bill. Some of them see a gas tax increase as a way to finance increased infrastructure spending.
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13th February 2011 03:13 PM #1... Array
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We Repubs get credit for this?
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13th February 2011 07:15 PM #2Senior Member Array
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Typical that the Democrat's instinctively turn to tax increases to solve their problems (to pay for their pet projects), but I give cudos to them for realizing this gas tax would be a death blow to them come 2012. (including for Obama if he helped pass such a tax)
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13th February 2011 08:31 PM #3Senior Member Array
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"We".... in reference to a political party.
It never ceases to amaze me.
I just can't get my head around it.
I know I harp on it. I know it's a dead horse I'm whipping.... I ... just.... don't..... get.... it.
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Wow Jojo!! Did you even read the flipping article??
Originally Posted by JoJoGunne
Do us all a favor and read the damn article before you make a fool of yourself..Despite pressure from some members, Senate Democratic leaders are reluctant to embrace an increase in the gas tax as they search for ways to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure.
“At this point, the caucus is not ready to sign off on a gas tax or any tax increase,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters Thursday afternoon.
Dem leaders shy away from gas-tax hike despite party support - TheHill.comWho is the more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows him? - Ben Kenobi
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14th February 2011 05:42 AM #5Senior Member Array
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...and yet where are your ideas to keep the infrastructure from falling apart? Originally Posted by JoJoGunne
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Republicans want the infrastructure to fall apart so they can say "we told you government doesn't work, and we have done our best to prove as much for the last 30 years by governing as poorly as is conceivably possible while still garnering any votes." They can then say "See government doesn't work, this is why we need to cut government and privatize things." So infrastructure be damned, that "is not the role of government."
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Foundation? Originally Posted by frodly
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Originally Posted by Oldschool
Observation of Republican rhetoric and action.There is no true opposition between liberty as such and control as such, for every liberty rests on a corresponding act of control. The true opposition is between the control that cramps the personal life and the spiritual order, and the control that is aimed at securing the external and material conditions of their free and unimpeded development. LT Hobhouse
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Rest assured that I DID read the article. Originally Posted by MajikMyst
That's why I wrote my response.It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
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What actions exactly, thanks. Originally Posted by frodly
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