“Fuck me” isn’t exactly a mea culpa.
A sum and a percentage are two totally different mathematical concepts. On a board dedicated to fighting ignorance since 1973, I would think that you would know that.
Apparently not. :smack:
Guys, can we move on?
Yeah, right!
Wow! You’re an intellectual! What power your words have!:rolleyes:
Now, if you’ll address my last post in re: your odious behaviour, comments, etc… , and give reasons for your unbecoming behavior, I may stop laughing at you.
And don’t use the SDMB, and it’s motto, as a deodorant for your sloppy attempts at trying to appear smarter than anybody when you can’t cut it.
At any rate, if you want a right going over, take it to the Pit. There, I shall abuse and master you at my pleasure. I’m through fencing with seconds. (On this thread.)
*Now *we can!
Boy, did this thing get derailed!
Why are we talking about trains in a gas thread? 
Some local train systems get federal highway money, so we’re not completely derailed.
Nope. “Inequality” is not the problem.
The problem is bizarre taxes on a product only because it is “cheap” and a lot of people are using it.
I don’t see why you think that the highest 1% need to be punished, or for what, but, the sorrows of the world are not their fault. Now, if you want to blame the highest 1% of politicians, who get us into inflationary and deadly wars, then we are back into the realm of reality.
Inequality is only a problem to the lower strata that think that some statistics are indicative of some measure of worth on their part.
Right. We’re back on track.
Some of us don’t see rolling back the highest tax brackets to levels that they were at for some of the most productive economical decades in this country’s history to be a punishment. We call it paying their fair share.
You also drive smaller cars. I’d argue that all those things are at least partially due to higher fuel costs. In other words, it is different, but it doesn’t need to be.
One state is planning to revise their decades-old sliding gas taxing formula, based on the retail price, to lower the base rate for the first year and then raise it for the next 2 years. They plan to make up for the loss of revenue in the first year by eliminating 500 DOT employee positions, effective March 1.
Some of us see a progressive tax as being punitive and a greater degree of theft from those who are more productive. We call it extortion and theft at the point of the gun (military, IRS, etc…). Not to mention, unfair.
More to the point, however- I was noting that HMS Irruncible used the word ‘impunity’ which, to me, denotes punishment.
I’m sure that all those rich people will stop even trying to be rich if we rolled back the tax brackets to how they were for the most successful decades of our country’s history. In fact, there were no rich people when the tax brackets on the highest income earners were higher because they were so disincentivized.
And the “taxation is theft” mantra is boring and wrong but by saying it it means that you, like most Libertarians, are so disconnected with the real world (a real world where Libertarianism has never been implemented, ever) that rational discourse is impossible.
Meh I’ve got the money. I’d rather pay the taxes now than when I was making $7-something an hour. I’m not sure paying it through massive gas taxes is the way to do it. But I do like the idea of using gas taxes as a sort of use-tax for roads, as it is currently. If we’re going to keep having the feds pay for the interstate, then I think this tax is a good way to do it. Otherwise just drop it and lets the states figure it out.