Gas Tax

While most people were sleeping at 3am on Tuesday, May 10, 2011, The Senate passed the largest tax hike in the history of Connecticut, which will raise gas prices almost 12% from the present $4.10 per gallon price. And there's more -- .

The Obama Administration has the potential to jump start the economy and in turn generate more revenue during the summer months by making one simple move.

The government may raise the gasoline tax, but worse yet, they might start taxing your mileage.

With dropping oil prices producing much lower gas prices and states facing terrible fiscal crises it is time for Americans to see why modest increase in gas taxes benefit society.

political op ed on Congress' refusal to reduce the federal gas tax.

It's obviously appropriate somehow that state and federal gas taxes in America started at the one cent mark. It gives us more a broader sense of the tax hikes just in the last twenty years. And we can expect more hikes later after the non-existent gas tax holiday...

While some have been excited by the idea of not having to pay federal tax on gas this summer, statistics show that the "Gas Tax Holiday" is an ineffectual idea.

Why are John McCain and Hillary Clinton proposing a gas tax holiday? Why is Obama against it? Read this article to learn why and to learn how it will affect you.

How appropriate for Arizona Senator John McCain to suggest to the American public a plan to eliminate a portion of their taxes on the deadline day for filing tax returns. On April 15, a day of dread for millions of American taxpayers, McCain unveiled a "Holiday Tax Plan"...

Recently Senator John McCain of Arizona proposed giving Americans a break from the fuel taxes paid at the pump. Specifically he calls for a hiatus on the taxing of gasoline and diesel fuels from Memorial Day to Labor Day 2008.

Is Senator McCain trying to "buy votes" with his gas tax relief plan or does that really matter?

On Tuesday, April 15, Senator John McCain offered a temporary solution to the roaring gas prices, a gas tax suspension. He wants to suspend the 18.4 cents per gallon gas tax from Memorial Day to Labor Day.

Once again Bush fails economics 101, his plan to suspend Gas Tax will do more harm then good.

"It's time for the Democrats to live up to their rhetoric of working to help middle-class Americans with an agenda that actually drives strong economic growth. Clearly, a $10 increase to the price of gas does not meet that standard."

Gas taxes are not the cause of high fuel prices. This article explores the gas tax and why it should not be lowered.

Connecticut's dependency on the motor vehicle was particularly evident on March 26, 2004 when an Interstate 95 bridge collapsed in Bridgeport forcing vehicles to detour through city streets.

Highly fuel efficient car proliferation should raise gas prices, chiefly through new government gas tax hikes. Does more MPG mean higher fuel cost?

Raising the gasoline tax in the United States gradually and substantially can provide many benefits.

A proposal to fundamentally reform the gas tax system from consumption of fuel to miles driven.

My daddy wouldn't believe the prices of gas tody.

Where is the balance without a severance tax? As far as we can see most Pennsylvania's envision, the future bread basket of America, as a wasteland of toxic waters and extinguished wildlife, farmland, livestock and extensive polluted waterways!

The other day, I read an article in which the author indicated that one of the problems with falling gas prices is that they decrease the gas tax revenues of the federal government as well as those of state and local governments.

Does the price of gas influence my vote? Of course it does.

John McCain's gas plan is a slap in the public's face. Yeah it sounds good at first to anyone who is not knowledgeable about the countries current and projected economic status.