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  •  I'm concerned that most people will hear (18+ / 0-)

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    'tax relief' and pee their pants with excitement, when in reality it means even crappier infrastructure and miniscule savings. I mean, it would roll back gas prices to, like, 2 weeks ago.

    Oh God I hate McCain. And SHAME ON HILLARY for supporting a dumb idea.

    It's a neighborly day in this beautywood. Relentless!

    by ablington on Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 09:29:16 AM PDT

    •  Tipped and rec'd (4+ / 0-)

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      Good find; and, with the rollback of prices, demand would go up, and the oil companies would ... raise prices.

      Therefore, the money would be diverted from the government to the oil companies.

      BAD idea, McSame!

      "People should not be afraid of their government; governments should be afraid of their people." --V

      by MikeTheLiberal on Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 09:31:26 AM PDT

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    •  Just got an email reply from my mother... (4+ / 0-)

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      yeah, it's going to mean huge job loses, crap for
      roads and bridges, all to get McCain a few more votes,
      and put a few more bucks into consumers pockets,
      unless they have ANYTHING to do with highway
      construction. I hope he falls in the water when a
      bridge breaks under him. At least construction guys
      won't need their gas to go to work, just enough to get
      to the unemployment office. I guess Obama is the only
      actual SMART person in the race, and the only one with
      courage enough not to agree with this idiotic, but
      popular with the masses idea. I'm am genuinely
      concerned about what this will mean for our family if
      it gets passed in Congress. I hope their are some
      Highway and Heavy construction lobbyists lurking
      around the halls. Governor Baldaci is against it. Not
      that that will do any good.

      It's a neighborly day in this beautywood. Relentless!

      by ablington on Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 09:31:29 AM PDT

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      •  This outfit you father works for... (1+ / 0-)

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        ablington

        ...sounds like a little family-owned engineering and surveying firm I used to work for, in Lake Forest, IL. The pay sucked, the eldest son and his kids acted like they were heir-apparents, but the Old Man was a hoot! 90 years old, and an Armour Tech graduate (Armour merged with Lewis Institute in 1941 to form IIT, my alma mater).

        Float like a manhole cover, sting like a sash weight. John McCain = Old Boat Anchor

        by JeffW on Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 10:47:45 AM PDT

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    •  I think tax relief is exactly the theme ... (4+ / 0-)

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      ...it is, after all, the GOP mantra for every occasion.  They like to turn tax holidays into whole vacations and then a year-round state of affairs. Someday, however, they'll have to come up with something new because they will run out of taxes to cut.

      (Excuse me if I am a little ranty; I'm pondering the 30th anniversary of California's Prop 13 passed on June 6, 1978 and f'n up state finances ever since.)

      I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land. -- Mark Twain

      by Meteor Blades on Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 09:39:57 AM PDT

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    •  TO be fair to Hillary, at least she is (0+ / 0-)

      acknowledging the shortfall in tax dollars.

      It's a neighborly day in this beautywood. Relentless!

      by ablington on Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 09:46:11 AM PDT

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