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but its not easy to just suspend such taxes.

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Hillary want's the oil industry to pick up the tax bill over the summer months....So the tax revenue would still be there too pay for road work and the like....

To give us a gas tax holiday, will they lay off the road crews who usually do these repairs in the summer when the weather is most favorable for it? That would just put a lot more families on unemployment. I don't see how suspending the gas tax would bother oil companies at all--they don't get that money anyway.

I'm all for reducing the gas tax. The high prices really hurt between paychecks. I think the Federal tax alone is something like 18 cents per gallon, and some states have talked about cutting their tax as well.

From a higher level, though, two things bother me:

First, no one has said anything about what this loss of tax revenue will mean. Can we afford to do without this revenue? Either there is an impact, or the tax suspension should be permanent.

Secondly, what happens at the end of summer? The tax goes back in place and the gas prices go up again. What was accomplished?

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