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Originally posted by Iron Steve
User taxes bother me less than income or wealth based taxes. The vast majority of Americans have public transportation options but eschew them to indulge in the benefits of cheap oil. All the liberals here rant and rave about how Bush is killing the environment (along with innocent terrorists) but the public buses, trains, rideshare programs et al are utilized at something less than 30% of capacity. I see more SUVs here than in any other place I have ever lived (although in fairness that is also a prodduct of the fact that SUVs continue to become more popular generally). the green faced treehugging liberals are the worst hypocrats I have ever seen.
Also, going back to the first sentence, to some extent I am for raising gas taxes, especially if the money was earmarked for purposes in furtherance of the public good. Like killing our terrorist enemies and furthering our superpower rule over the world.
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I wasn't speaking of the use taxes. I was talking about the fact that in order to use Iraq's oil to finance our war against them or continued occpuation of their country we would have to (i) steal the oil from the Iraqi people; (ii) charge current market prices for it, thus putting the US government of acting like a socialist power with respect to state ownership of the resource, but profiting from the world market like a capitalist totalitarian state; (iii) pass part of the profit from that state-run enterprise to a few selected private parties; (iv) prolong our need to stay in Iraq in order to quell the inevitable increase in opposition to our taking their resources; and (v) maintaining order in an incresaingly poorere nation as we siphon off the one truly valuable commodity thier economy has to finance its improvement.
