New gas tax in Virginia hurts Latinos!

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Democrats only raise taxes on the middle class and lower. Can anyone provide proof they don't???

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Anonymous wrote:Liberals run on only taxing rich people. But they only tax the middle class in real life.

Well, yes, the middle class also needs to pay taxes. Without taxes, we (the US) can't pay for the services we (Americans) want the government to provide.

Now Republicans, they run on cutting taxes, but they only cut taxes for rich people.

Who do you think employs the middle and working lower classes? Yes ... that’s right, the rich in the form of proprietorships, partnerships, or corporations. Well, except for state, local, and federal government. In those cases, it is not the rich employing, but rather the powerful. Either way, the employer takes more and more of either the income or the taxes. You’re just upset that you’re neither the rich nor the powerful. Keep working smart and hard and maybe you’ll get there someday.

Terrific. Guess who makes the rich people rich? Yes...that's right, the middle and working classes.

It's like Willie Sutton said. Tax the rich, because that's where the money is.

Either way, you’re screwed buddy. The rich will always be rich no matter how much you think you’re taxing them and the government will always be in power no matter who you vote for. The only hope you have is to get rich enough so that you can buy the politicians.

Learn some history, please.

Learn some reality please, and some actual history please.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Gas taxes should be quintupled across the country to encourage more carpooling, public transportation building and less fossil fuel consumption. You'd see a huge cry for public transportation if people could no longer afford to drive.

Spoken by someone who lives in the city or suburbs. Not at all practical for us rural folks.

No one is forcing you to live in the middle of nowhere, you do that by choice. You could choose to live in a high rise next to transit and not own a car, but you don't. So you can pay for your choices.

Transit doesn't work for tradesmen who live in rural areas. Check how far away your local tradesman lives, or landscaper. Plus they can't carry their equipment on the bus and metro.

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Anonymous wrote:City folks are much smarter!

Yes, they are. That’s why we live in cities.

Look at all the multitude of skill sets and jobs found in a city. Compare that to whatever it is they do in rural areas, farming or whatever. Not even close in terms of variation. Farming could be entirely automated by now if it weren’t for farmers.

Farming requires a lot of different skills ranging from mechanical for the equipment maintenance, logistics, to business development and marketing skills as well as everything in-between.

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Anonymous wrote:Gas taxes should be quintupled across the country to encourage more carpooling, public transportation building and less fossil fuel consumption. You'd see a huge cry for public transportation if people could no longer afford to drive.

Spoken by someone who lives in the city or suburbs. Not at all practical for us rural folks.

No one is forcing you to live in the middle of nowhere, you do that by choice. You could choose to live in a high rise next to transit and not own a car, but you don't. So you can pay for your choices.

Transit doesn't work for tradesmen who live in rural areas. Check how far away your local tradesman lives, or landscaper. Plus they can't carry their equipment on the bus and metro.

Then find a new career

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No one is forcing you to live in the middle of nowhere, you do that by choice. You could choose to live in a high rise next to transit and not own a car, but you don't. So you can pay for your choices.

Transit doesn't work for tradesmen who live in rural areas. Check how far away your local tradesman lives, or landscaper. Plus they can't carry their equipment on the bus and metro.

Then find a new career

Oh, that's sweet! What do suppose will happen when all those carpenters, plumbers, landscapers, and electricians "find a new career"? Who will repair your hot water heater? Who will build that deck you've always wanted? Who will do any of the necessary jobs around your home that you don't have the skill (or the tools) to do? And just what "new career" do you recommend? Maybe they all could become computer programmers?
You are a moron.

[Anonymous]

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No one is forcing you to live in the middle of nowhere, you do that by choice. You could choose to live in a high rise next to transit and not own a car, but you don't. So you can pay for your choices.

Transit doesn't work for tradesmen who live in rural areas. Check how far away your local tradesman lives, or landscaper. Plus they can't carry their equipment on the bus and metro.

Then find a new career

Oh, that's sweet! What do suppose will happen when all those carpenters, plumbers, landscapers, and electricians "find a new career"? Who will repair your hot water heater? Who will build that deck you've always wanted? Who will do any of the necessary jobs around your home that you don't have the skill (or the tools) to do? And just what "new career" do you recommend? Maybe they all could become computer programmers?
You are a moron.

They will adjust their business to higher gas prices, just like they do when gas prices go up for reasons other than taxation.

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Anonymous wrote:VA gas tax is the 11th lowest in the nation.

Gas tax in CA is almost three times higher, and they have many more Latinos.

Evidently this is not an issue that Latinos care about, or CA Latinos would have voted against it.

Uuuhhh that assumes they can legally vote. Anyhow, gas tax is a consumption tax. Pretty fair but yes it hurts those with less income the hardest. Not sure why Latinos are being singled out here. Plenty of blacks, Asians, whites, and indigenous persons that are poor too. It is kind of why public transportation was created.

Nah, public transportation was created because it's an efficient way to get people from here to there.

Previous PP do you really think that public transportation is for poor people? Wow. Why do you think housing on metro lines are more expensive? So poor people can live there? As the PP above mentioned it is for efficiency. Can you imagine if everyone who takes the metro or metro bus drove every day. Traffic would be even worse than it is today. Further public transportation is not always a cheaper option. I had a friend who moved to cut down on his metro costs. Between parking and round trip fares for him and his wife it was over $30 per day. They could have driven for cheaper but it would have taken twice as long.

And if it is for poor people why do so many famous people take the subway in NY. Efficiency.

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No one is forcing you to live in the middle of nowhere, you do that by choice. You could choose to live in a high rise next to transit and not own a car, but you don't. So you can pay for your choices.

Transit doesn't work for tradesmen who live in rural areas. Check how far away your local tradesman lives, or landscaper. Plus they can't carry their equipment on the bus and metro.

Then find a new career

Oh, that's sweet! What do suppose will happen when all those carpenters, plumbers, landscapers, and electricians "find a new career"? Who will repair your hot water heater? Who will build that deck you've always wanted? Who will do any of the necessary jobs around your home that you don't have the skill (or the tools) to do? And just what "new career" do you recommend? Maybe they all could become computer programmers?
You are a moron.

They will adjust their business to higher gas prices, just like they do when gas prices go up for reasons other than taxation.

That's not what the poster above said ("Then find a new career"). Tradesmen who need to drive to meet their customers will certainly have to raise their prices a bit to compensate for any additional gas tax. I have no problem with that.
But saying "...find a new career"? That's absolute bullshit. And the person who said it is either a troll or a total ass.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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No one is forcing you to live in the middle of nowhere, you do that by choice. You could choose to live in a high rise next to transit and not own a car, but you don't. So you can pay for your choices.

Transit doesn't work for tradesmen who live in rural areas. Check how far away your local tradesman lives, or landscaper. Plus they can't carry their equipment on the bus and metro.

Then find a new career

Oh, that's sweet! What do suppose will happen when all those carpenters, plumbers, landscapers, and electricians "find a new career"? Who will repair your hot water heater? Who will build that deck you've always wanted? Who will do any of the necessary jobs around your home that you don't have the skill (or the tools) to do? And just what "new career" do you recommend? Maybe they all could become computer programmers?
You are a moron.

They will adjust their business to higher gas prices, just like they do when gas prices go up for reasons other than taxation.

Sure, but it's worth noting that the transit model doesn't work for their line of work. Nor does high density housing and HOA intolerance for overnight parking of their trailers and work vehicles.

We need people to work those jobs and should look for other solutions for them

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

No one is forcing you to live in the middle of nowhere, you do that by choice. You could choose to live in a high rise next to transit and not own a car, but you don't. So you can pay for your choices.

Transit doesn't work for tradesmen who live in rural areas. Check how far away your local tradesman lives, or landscaper. Plus they can't carry their equipment on the bus and metro.

Then find a new career

Oh, that's sweet! What do suppose will happen when all those carpenters, plumbers, landscapers, and electricians "find a new career"? Who will repair your hot water heater? Who will build that deck you've always wanted? Who will do any of the necessary jobs around your home that you don't have the skill (or the tools) to do? And just what "new career" do you recommend? Maybe they all could become computer programmers?
You are a moron.

They will adjust their business to higher gas prices, just like they do when gas prices go up for reasons other than taxation.

Sure, but it's worth noting that the transit model doesn't work for their line of work. Nor does high density housing and HOA intolerance for overnight parking of their trailers and work vehicles.

We need people to work those jobs and should look for other solutions for them

The transit model would work just fine, because (1) they wouldn't have to sit in traffic caused by people driving around in the single-occupancy vehicles (2) dense land use would enable them to get around without giant work trucks.

Also, there's no reason why carpenters, plumbers, landscapers, and electricians can't live in multi-family housing. Indeed, many do.

Bans on work-truck parking are dumb, though - I agree with you there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:VA gas tax is the 11th lowest in the nation.

Gas tax in CA is almost three times higher, and they have many more Latinos.

Evidently this is not an issue that Latinos care about, or CA Latinos would have voted against it.

Uuuhhh that assumes they can legally vote. Anyhow, gas tax is a consumption tax. Pretty fair but yes it hurts those with less income the hardest. Not sure why Latinos are being singled out here. Plenty of blacks, Asians, whites, and indigenous persons that are poor too. It is kind of why public transportation was created.

Nah, public transportation was created because it's an efficient way to get people from here to there.

Previous PP do you really think that public transportation is for poor people? Wow. Why do you think housing on metro lines are more expensive? So poor people can live there? As the PP above mentioned it is for efficiency. Can you imagine if everyone who takes the metro or metro bus drove every day. Traffic would be even worse than it is today. Further public transportation is not always a cheaper option. I had a friend who moved to cut down on his metro costs. Between parking and round trip fares for him and his wife it was over $30 per day. They could have driven for cheaper but it would have taken twice as long.

And if it is for poor people why do so many famous people take the subway in NY. Efficiency.

It is a viable option for the poor. It was created to serve the masses, including the poor, and to create efficiencies. It was not a singular criteria decision. I should have stated “one of the reasons” not “the reason.” Yes rich people can ride too but they can also afford not to if and when needed or wanted. The point being that the poor have an alternative to expensive gas and cars.

[Anonymous]

what a shane. latinx women and children will be hit the hardest by this new gas tax

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:what a shane. latinx women and children will be hit the hardest by this new gas tax

This reminds me of the story about the end of the world.

Headline in the New York Times: WORLD ENDS TOMORROW - STORY ON PAGE 12

Headline in the Wall Street Journal: WORLD ENDS TOMORROW - MARKETS TO CLOSE EARLY

Headline in the Washington Post: WORLD ENDS TOMORROW - WOMEN AND MINORITIES TO SUFFER MOST

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:what a shane. latinx women and children will be hit the hardest by this new gas tax

No. Poor people are the least likely to own cars.