How about the 47 million families that don't pay ONE RED CENT it taxes. How about we charge them 10 percent or 5 percent??

Geo, neither Repulicans of Democrats have proposed raising the tax on the low income brackets or raising the threshold to pay tax.

From what I hear in the news is that nobody wants any tax whatsoever. No tax on the wealthy (they earned their money), no tax on the poor (they can't afford it) and no tax on anybody else (they have paid enough).

Yet everyone wants the potholes fixed, they want the police to patrol their neighborhood, they want their trash picked up, they want clean rivers and they want to feel secure with the finest military establishment in the world.

Complaints on this board of the tax on gasoline. That if somehow we were to remove the tax on gasoline the price of gas would be affordable.

Look at the airlines. They recieved a break on FAA taxes yet did not lower fairs, kept the offset to help profits. I don't see oil companies doing any diferent out of the goodness of their hearts.

Oil is around $85 now and gas is still at about $3.50. $0.80 higher than last year with oil prices lower and demand the same or lower. We have now be conditioned to pay > $3.50 for gas. It's not coming down no matter the price of oil because they know we will pay that.

The Oil companies are not going to build us a new 4 lane highway, no private company is because it is just not economically feasable to aquire the land and make the investment.

So somehow this gas tax is just awful, but nobody is giving up using the interstate. Instead you hear "they need to fix that curve, need a guadrail there, this boat ramp is too bumpy ".

I think Warren Buffet can afford to pay a little more tax.