🚀 go-pugleaf

afour@RedStripe.gre.ulaval.ca (Alain Fournier) writes:

>Laura Cohan (laura@tmx.com) wrote:
>> If you have had it with California's ultra-high gas prices, visit this 
>> page to download a petition and make a stand.

>> Our politicians will only pay attention to us if we show them IN WRITING 
>> that we are upset, and we vote.

>> http://tmx.com/gasprices
>> ------------------------

>"Ultra-high gas prices", let's be serious here. California's gas prices
>are lower then gas prices in Canada, most or all European countries, Japan
>etc. That's the main reason why gas consumption per capita is higher
>in California then in the above mentioned countries. Get higher gas
>taxes, lower income taxes and you will ease the smog problem in L.A.
>without changing much the tax burden.

This assumes the incomes taxes would be decreased in the first place and
not raised again later-  pretty iffy propositions based on the record
of politicians in the US.  Looking at Canada's and the European's fiscal & 
tax problems does not want to make me want to have the US emulate them.

For the true-blue liberals out there-  remember that gas taxes are very
regressive on the poor who happen to be driving quite a few of the older
less maintained vehicles, and not all that many have access to public
transportation.
-- 
Thomas P. Montoya
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
uucp:	  ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!gt3981b
Internet: gt3981b@prism.gatech.edu