Clinton's "gas tax holiday" scheme

[youknowmenotdlc]

As this primary season moves on I am becoming numb.

The constant barrage of empty, non issues used to bash Obama have caused me to slowly come to the realization that we as a party are becoming indiscernable from our opposition. Sure there is the occasional policy issue where we differ but the way that we have taken like ducks to water when it comes to playing the same brand of idiot politics that they have mastered is discouraging.

The reason I am a Democrat is that I value REASON, I value citizenship, and I value the pursuit of a higher ideal and purpose for myself and my country.

But that is dying in front of my very eyes for not only have I witnessed a campaign that was purposefully driven into the very muck that the Republicans so gleefully wallow in now I get to see my party try to hand out the equivalent of Mardi Gras beads to an all to willing public in exchange for a vote.

This "gas tax holiday" is just as shallow and shortsighted as Bush's tax rebates, yet even less filling. Those 300 dollar kickbacks served as nothing more than a tax payer funded election year payola scheme at a time when our nation could afford it the least.

But it worked. Seems that there isn't a shortage of very stupid and shortsighted people in this country who snapped up their 300 buck and thought Bush was a great guy for finally giving instead of taking.

Now Hillary has used this same bait and switch principle to apparently get an edge in the upcoming primaries. This 30 dollar trinket (wich by the way will never ever actually be implemented) is enough to dupe our idiotocracy into thinking that they are gonna get something for nothing.

It's a scam worthy of the Republican seal of approval as Mcain also endorses this never gonna happen fantasy of an extra 30 bucks.

I predict now that Hillary will win in NC largely because of this sly charade, because people in general, even apparently Democrats are easily swyed by a little bit of silver, even if they aren't smart enough to realize they will never actually get it.

I never knew buying votes could be done so cheaply.

[OlderButWiser]

1. It's an obvious...

...ploy for votes. But I'm not necessarily against it.

[RC]

2. You should be. I read this past week that this gas tax Holiday

would be a 9 billion dollar hit against the funds that maintain our roads and bridges across the nation and yet you and I could expect to save around $30 a year.

[youknowmenotdlc]

3. Why would you be for it?

Do you realize that this gas tax holiday will put a few bucks in your pocket but you will get to pay that back in spades in the form of higher property taxes and crumbling infrastructure?

Everyone on this board pointed their finger at the Pukes for cutting funding for roadway maintenance when the bridge in Minneapolis collapsed, now Hillary is proposing we starve the very same programs by cutting off a source of revenue.

Democrats used to think these things through and understand they were being had.

[shaniqua6392]

4. Why wasn't the bridge in MN fixed with some of that money?

They won't fix the crumbling infrastructure anyway. Here in Michigan, we live with constant orange barrels and nothing ever gets done. We all need a front end alignment every time we go in for an oil change! She is just saying it for political reasons anyway. It will never happen. She panders just like Obama panders. They are politicians after all.