Posted by
txag007 on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:37:48 AM
Senator Obama said today that the gas tax holiday proposed by Senator McCain would rob the treasury of billions of dollars intended for highway construction.
That’s odd.
Congress has no problem spending money intended for highway construction on all kinds of purposes unrelated to our infrastructure, but let someone suggest taking those dollars away and it’s, “Oh no! That tax money is for our highways!”
Well, the Associated Press calculates that such a Memorial Day to Labor Day moratorium on the 18.4 cents-per-gallon tax would keep $10 billion in the hands of taxpayers. Citizens Against Government Waste estimates that $13.2 billion was spent in 2007 on earmarks and pork projects.
Does anyone see a problem here?