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In article <20785@rpp386.lonestar.org>, jfh@rpp386.lonestar.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
# In article <1992May14.184259.6441@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> curt@ekhadafi.austin.ibm.com (Curt Finch 903 2F021 curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com 512-838-2806) writes:
# >My point was that if you assume that lower gas usage is a good thing, which
# >is admittedly debatable, then the best way to accomplish that is to use
# >a gas tax instead of government fiat.
# 
# I suspect that one fear is that once the government gets its hands on the
# money, it doesn't let us decide what to do with it.  If there is going to
# be a gasoline tax to reduce consumption, the money from that tax should go
# back to the auto makers so they can do research into increased efficiency
# vehicles (with the proper safeguards to make sure that we are getting
# something for our money).

Let me get this straight: you think that if we get another tax on cars,
it ought to go back to the car makers who started all this. Right? Not
into, say, increased funding for public transportation? Not into fixing
the damn roads? So that the car companies can spend *more* of *my* money,
and I won't have a choice as to whether I give it to them? Well, pardon
my French, but *FUCK THAT SHIT*.
# 
# The last thing we need is gas tax money going to Head Start or some other
# pointless and wasteful social welfare program.

Head Start, pointless and wasteful? Just how do you define those terms?
Considering that's among the only social programs that have *proven* track
records as doing something useful *and* good? Ohhh, I see, you want to 
keep the 'ethnics' in their neightborhoods, so that if you ever get rich,
you can have cheap labor. Why don't you just say right out that you'd
like them all to go somewhere and die? 

# -- 
# John F. Haugh II                   | Vida en La Republica de Tejas:

	mark, in the plutocracy of Texas

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