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Gas Tax Holiday Takes Well… A Holiday

20 July 2008

The proposed gas tax holiday has officially been scrapped. Of course, this shouldn’t be news – the tax holiday was planned to start on Memorial Day as the kick off to the summer holiday season. Considering that we’re about six weeks away from Labor Day (the proposed end), the idea that the holiday won’t happen [...]

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Fun Friday Wraps Up and We’ve Concluded: Gas is Expensive!

23 May 2008

Fun Friday has wrapped up on the channel – there are lots of great posts about the price of gas and how it affects each of us. I hope you take the time to check out them out! How Many Miles to the Gallon is That? http://www.doingbizabroad.com/how-many-miles-to-the-gallon-is-that Toll Hopping at the Pump http://www.talkstocktrading.com/toll-hopping-on-the-weekend/ How Much [...]

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Fix the Tax Code Friday: Gas Tax

23 May 2008

It’s Fix the Tax Code Friday! There’s been lots of discussion about the gas tax over the past few months, including on this blog. Today, we paid nearly $4/gallon to fill the tank of our Subaru Forester. It totaled nearly $50. A reprieve from the federal gas tax (18.4 cents per gallon) would have saved [...]

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Who Gets the Gas Face?

12 May 2008

Have you ever heard of the “gas face”? Tisa, over at Talk Stock Trading, refers to a gas face as “a somewhat stressed look of displeasure induced by the pumping of expensive gas.” Yeah, we’ve all seen it. Since there’s been some interesting discussion on taxgirl.com about the gas tax (or gas tax holiday), I [...]

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The Holiday Gas Tax Doesn’t Make Sense Or Why 200 Economists Can’t Be Wrong

6 May 2008

Interesting commentary on CNN about why the gas tax doesn’t make sense and why it won’t pass. Pay particular attention to the projected savings to taxpayers. I had not previously heard the totals (other than from Obama) and it really is nearly inconsequential. The savings for the entire summer per family is estimated to be [...]

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Would a Gas Tax Holiday Help… or Hurt?

30 April 2008

Both McCain (GOP) and Clinton (Dem) have called for a temporary suspension of the federal gas tax – or a gas tax holiday – for the summer in response to higher gas prices. Obama has so far not endorsed such a move. There is currently a 18.4 cent federal tax imposed on each gallon of [...]

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Fix the Tax Code Friday: Highway/Gas Tax

10 August 2007

Despite pressure following the bridge collapse in Minneapolis, President Bush will not agree to raise gas taxes to pay for highway improvements. Officials in many states – including Pennsylvania, where I now live – have vowed to inspect and repair bridges nonetheless (Pennsylvania has one of the highest concentrations of road bridges in the country). [...]

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