Clinton's Gas Tax Plan Called 'Ineffective', 'Shortsighted'

[catgirl]

Huffington Post:

The Washington Post published yet another article today showing the negative reactions to Hillary Clinton's plan to suspend the federal gas tax.

A growing chorus -- including a top congressional Democrat -- labeled Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's proposal for suspending the federal gasoline tax ineffective and shortsighted yesterday, even as she continued to paint Sen. Barack Obama as insensitive to drivers' woes for not endorsing the plan.

Yesterday, HuffPost's Sam Stein published a comprehensive article about how Clinton has nonexistant expert support for the plan:

Over the past several days, some of the nation's leading economic and political pundits have weighed in critically on the proposal of both Sens. Hillary Clinton and John McCain to institute a gas tax holiday this summer.

Paul Krugman of the New York Times said on Tuesday that Clinton's idea, while less "evil" than McCain's, was still "pointless" and "disappointing."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/01/clintons-gas-tax-plan-cal_n_99570.html

[iamthebandfanman]

1. just say no to republican thinking

'oh no somethings wrong in the country!? quick! cut taxes!'

they think they can just cut taxes and shut everyone up n itll go away, never fixing the problem.

[Boz]

7. She has complete support of her two NEWEST SDs since she announced this

Her two newest SDs AFL CIO Presidents.

Make no mistake thats a direct buy of their Superdelegate vote and they are both going AGAINST their memberships who endorsed Obama.

Its not the American people shes worried about its the Corporations and a payoff for the columbian free trade she is going to cram down their memberships throats.

[msongs]

2. its a PR stunt that has little actual cash value - stop drinking soda will save much more $$ nt

[grantcart]

3. from the oil company's point of view it will be very effective

since supply and demand dictates price - they will pocket the .18 cents as pure profit.

[catgirl]

6. Link to Washington Post article

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/30/AR2008043003575.html?hpid=topnews

"but also result in fatter profit margins for oil companies".

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3291958

[napi21]

4. I think the tax holiday plan is silly & shortsighted too, but we all know

how most Americans look at NOW instead of thinking about future impact of any program. I think what Baback should promote is that this holiday would cause 300,000 highway workers to be layed off! The bad roads & bridges will continue to deteriorate and your personal benefit would be minimal!

[Terran]

5. Yesterday's commentary by Robert Reich on NPR

He called it "a dumb idea". :rofl:

[azmouse]

8. K&R