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| The price of gas has been much higher under Obama than it was for almost all of Bush's two terms. We've all paid an astronomical energy tax under Obama. |
they are ready to raise the state’s gas tax.
The increased tax, on an already needlessly inflated product, would supposedly go to repair roads and bridges.
The SC Chamber says it has a poll of Republicans that is about 50-50 on raising the gas tax in the state. But there is no reason not to be suspicious of that in-house poll that helps promote the tax the chamber supports. Chambers, once thought to be a friend to free enterprise, are becoming more and more on the side of Big Government.
There are two reasons that may be why Conservatives are against a gas tax increase.
One is we do not trust legislators to use the money as they say, to fix roads. We've paid a gas tax forever. Why have you not used the money to repair highways already? If you have more drivers, gas tax revenues should have increased.
And two: the economy is AWFUL. Since Barack Obama was elected, unemployment as been high, along with gas prices and food prices, compared to most of the Bush Administration.
That's undeniable. Obama ran on a promise to "Transform America."
Remember a creepy video of the glazed-eyed children of liberals singing "Obama's gonna change it all." Well he did. And Americans have been suffering under him. So we cannot afford a gas tax. Obama, through his poor management, has imposed a gas tax for almost six years. We're not open to paying more. We have to feed and care for our children.
The Democrat-based contingent of tax-hikers in South Carolina, who have incorporated a few middling Republicans so the media can call them bipartisan, need Gov. Nikki Haley's cooperation.
Thankfully, to this point, Haley has said she would veto increasing South Carolina’s 16-cent-a gallon gas tax.
Maybe these taxers could cut spending somewhere else to fund road maintenance.
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