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May 4, 2008
Want Gas Taxes Cut? Then You're Stupid
Posted by Dave Blount at May 4, 2008 9:51 AM
As the MSM would rather you not know, the government takes much more in taxes than energy companies do in profits on the gas you buy. The fastest way to lower gas prices is to cut taxes, which McCain has proposed. Shrillary climbed aboard, screeching that she wants to cut gas taxes too; she'll make up for the tax shortfall by looting oil companies.
You would think her Marxist/Leninist version of a tax cut would find favor with the MSM. But no tax cut is a good tax cut according to Fourth Estate. If you disagree, it's because you're too stupid to listen when liberal newspaper editorialists attempt to enlighten you.
MSNBC's Jonathan Alter explains (via NewsBusters):
[Shrillary & Co. are] essentially assuming that people are too stupid to realize that this is a bad idea [… But Shrillary might convince voters to go for it] because there are a lot of what are called "low information" voters. You know, they're really not reading the unanimous, unanimous newspaper editorials against this. They're not talking to the environmentalists, the economists, everybody who unanimously believes this is a bad idea.
"Everybody" means everybody with a seat at the table of the liberal establishment — not counting those less fanatical than MSNBC.
Alter does like the part about looting the oil companies with a "windfall profits" smash and grab; he just doesn't want any tax relief for consumers. Speaking of stupid, one of the reasons he opposes it is that affordable gasoline would allegedly exacerbate the nonexistent global warming crisis.
On a tip from Cheetah.
