On this week’s Car Talk, Ray had a modest little proposal: a graduated gasoline tax. Starting this year, Ray wants a 50-cent a year increase in the gas tax, until, after six years, we’ll be paying another $3 per gallon. Why? Because Ray thinks it’s high time we started conserving oil. …

The low income people are really paying already. If there were any public transportation that had some kind of handicapped entry, I would take it. The drivers have a lot of excuses, they need them, they can’t tell you that the bus company doesn’t care. If I could carry my own ramp, they probably wou…

Ihave listened to the Car Talk brothers for years, and really enjoy them. But, I view their tendency to desire the government to solve all our problems to be THEIR DARK SIDE. They are the remnants of a country which had the government regulate everything. it was called the Soviet Empire, and today …

By calling it a “modest proposal” are you comparing this idea to Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”? If so, you should consider that Swift was using satire. He didn’t really think the English landlords should eat Irish babies. He was simply trying to demonstrate that if the English landlords we…

If the goal is to stretch our available fuel supplies, I don’t know if adding cash to our government’s coffers is the way to do it. I agree that adding to the cost of the fuel at the pump will encourage people to use less, or find more economical ways to use fuel. My concern would be where the mon…

Ray might be able to afford $6+ for a gallon of gas. I can’t. I already work at home and my husband’s commute is only 5 miles one way, which is lower than most people’s commutes that we know. If gas gets that expensive it’s going to hurt the economy because only the wealthy will be able to afford…

Sure, go right ahead, tax gasoline more. As I zoom buy in my 29mpg Jeep diesel, I laugh, evilly.

This isn’t what I’d call a “graduated” tax where the more you consume the higher rate you pay. It is a tax that is phased in. If I had any faith that the tax would be used wisely to create alternative transportation, I’d go for it, but I am skeptical.

Ray: Get real. I hope your children don’t grow up to be Dimocrats too.

Ray's Modest Proposal: A Graduated Gasoline Tax

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Troubleshooter May 18, 2007, 5:28am 5

Government should NEVER have the right to control any part of the economy.

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