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Old 11-11-2021, 11:42 AM   #49 (permalink)
hayden55
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Originally Posted by rmay635703 View Post
In the US I’ve long believed crude / gasoline should have a small supply side tax that kicks in higher when crude is below a certain floor (relating to $2/gal) gas or something similar

This would drive some of the costs of inefficiency to supply base companies and other users of fuel that even when paying gas tax actually can just write off 100% of the tax paying net zero .

Sadly getting those who cause the most damage and usually could care less about fuel costs to pay anything is near impossible in our current environment.

An added benefit would be normalizing fuel prices somewhat, so I can’t buy $0.99 fuel half the summer, which apparently most Americans figure is the only price they should pay for fuel and that the expensive $4.50 diesel I had to buy 3 & 4 presidents ago was just my imagination and not anyones fault.
Tax me harder, DADDY.
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