At a pump near you: a 'solve-everything' tax.I have a proposal to save energy, cut air pollution, reduce highway fatalities, and, while we're we're Contraction of we are. we're we are at it, reform Social. Security. All we have to do is raise the federal, gasoline tax Noun 1. gasoline tax - a tax on every gallon of gasoline sold excise, excise tax - a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate) by 50 cents per gallon gallon: see English units of measurement. and refund TO REFUND. To pay back by the party who has received it, to the party who has paid it, money which ought not to have been paid. 2. On a deficiency of assets, executors and administrators cum testamento annexo, are entitled to have refunded to them legacies all the new revenue directly to Americans by putting it in new Social Security individual, accounts. I realize how crazy this sounds, given the current public anger with high gas prices, but bear with me. Many experts say the $3 per gallon price isn't going to last, that the price will end up sooner or tater back around $2 per gallon. Suppose you gradually phase in the tax only when prices fall Consumers would still see their costs declining at the pump, so there would be no sudden shock at any tax increase. Some people would complain but at least they'd get their money back. A gas tax makes people drive less, not only saving gas but also easing road congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. and reducing pollution. One expert says a 50-cent tax increase would yield $70 billion in extra revenue annually. There would be enough to put about $440 into the personal. account of every worker now paying into Social. Security. A gasoline tax could fix Social Security--and save the planet.--John Tierney [10/04/05] |
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