Trump reportedly endorses 25-cent hike in gas tax

[ABX]

Tax And Spend

President Donald Trump is calling for a 25-cent hike to the federal gas tax in order to pay for the White House infrastructure plan, according to multiple reports....

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/14/trump-reportedly-endorses-25-cent-hike-in-gas-tax.html

[Sanguine]

Well &^*^@#$@#$R!!

No, I do not want to give the feds an additional 25 cents a gallon every time I fill up. 

[ABX]

Well &^*^@#$@#$R!!

No, I do not want to give the feds an additional 25 cents a gallon every time I fill up.

I may splurge on one of the new Polestar One EVs when they come out next year if FedGov keeps pulling this crap.

[aligncare]

As with most hyperventilating headlines regarding Trump, this is most likely a) fake news, b) exaggeration, c) a bargaining position as part of opening negotiations.

I think I’ll wait a bit for conformation before becoming outraged.

[INVAR]

As with most hyperventilating headlines regarding Trump, this is most likely a) fake news, b) exaggeration, c) a bargaining position as part of opening negotiations.

I think I’ll wait a bit for conformation before becoming outraged.

And even if Trump signs a federal gas tax increase, the Trump Faithful will lecture us plebes why taxing and spending is the imminently Conservative position to take.

[Right_in_Virginia]

As with most hyperventilating headlines regarding Trump, this is most likely a) fake news, b) exaggeration, c) a bargaining position as part of opening negotiations.

I think I’ll wait a bit for confirmation before becoming outraged.

Why @aligncare ... isn't it more fun to whittle away a boring afternoon spewing first and confirming later??   

[truth_seeker]

The "conservative" source for funds to build/rebuild vehicle highways, is the users thereof.

Gasoline and electric vehicle taxes would be one method of funding.

[Lando Lincoln]

So, this is one of those "possibly could be but probably not so let's wait and see but we can't possibly know the three-dimensional chess moves that are happening" things?  There are so many.

[MeshugeMikey]

if one veiws the gas tax hike in light of the development. quoted below... there should be less confusion and or disbelief  as to reports authenticitiy! it follows very closely to the POTUS's  MODUS OPERANDI.

"The White House unveiled Trump’s long-awaited infrastructure overhaul on Monday, a $1.5 trillion package that would include a $200 billion contribution from the federal government."

a 1.5 TRILLION dollar price tag.....of which the majority of said funds would be budget breaking l"BURDENS" for State.....and local Governments

[Concerned]

And even if Trump signs a federal gas tax increase, the Trump Faithful will lecture us plebes why taxing and spending is the imminently Conservative position to take.

@INVAR

You’re absolutely right, of course.  We’re going to have to borrow almost $1T this year, and the Trump Administration just submitted a budget that their deficit-hawk OMB Director said he probably wouldn’t have approved if he were still in Congress.  Yet, somehow, there are those who still lecture about how “conservative” this President is.  Well, not fiscally, he’s not (and fiscal conservatism is my priority).

[MeshugeMikey]

in the eyes..of the devoted trump fan...he can do NO wrong.  not FOLLOWING the Donnys whims  appears intolerable to those so heavily invested in his CARING...about them...as he claims to.

The President could talk His DEVOTEES ints donating blood WEEKLY...and they would COMPLY. most have no choice...the POST HYPNOTIC SUGGESTIONS make it nigh impossible to STRAY from the Trump Path

[txradioguy]

in the eyes..of the devoted trump fan...he can do NO wrong.  not FOLLOWING the Donnys whims  appears intolerable to those so heavily invested in his CARING...about them...as he claims to.

The President could talk His DEVOTEES ints donating blood WEEKLY...and they would COMPLY. most have no choice...the POST HYPNOTIC SUGGESTIONS make it nigh impossible to STRAY from the Trump Path

Nailed it.

[MeshugeMikey]

 "....and the "people" believed..."  many of them anyway

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

As with most hyperventilating headlines regarding Trump, this is most likely a) fake news, b) exaggeration, c) a bargaining position as part of opening negotiations.

I think I’ll wait a bit for conformation before becoming outraged.

 

[INVAR]

As with most hyperventilating headlines regarding Trump, this is most likely ....a bargaining position as part of opening negotiations.

That's funny right there.

The Divine Dealmaker, STARTING with a bid to raise the federal gas tax 25¢ a gallon, in order to negotiate with Democrats to get it to what - 50¢ a gallon??  A per mile tax on top of the gas tax?

Or force everyone to buy an electric car by making gasoline illegal?

You know, like what the morons in the Democrat Party want.

[ABX]

Who remembers Taxed Enough Already?  That used to be the slogan for something... I just can't quite remember what.

[Applewood]

As with most hyperventilating headlines regarding Trump, this is most likely a) fake news, b) exaggeration, c) a bargaining position as part of opening negotiations.

I think I’ll wait a bit for conformation before becoming outraged.

Well, here is a time for Trump to speak up -- come right out in a news conference or use his Twitter fingers -- and say, yes, we need this gas tax increase, or no, I won't go along with it.  When he wants to bitch about someone or something, we can't shut him up.  On something like this -- an important issue -- he's silent. 

[kevindavis007]

The "conservative" source for funds to build/rebuild vehicle highways, is the users thereof.

Gasoline and electric vehicle taxes would be one method of funding.

The problem is that the Electric vehicles are pay jack.

[MeshugeMikey]

donny....his budgets and his proposed taxes.... are a very poor joke

[aligncare]

donny....his budgets and his proposed taxes.... are a very poor joke

Did they forget to close the back door at the daycare center again? Did you ask a grown up for help crossing the street?