Clinton’s Gas Tax Holiday A Sham

Barak Obama doesn’t think the American people need relief from government - he opposes a temporary hold on gas taxes to help folks get through the summer. John McCain called for a suspension of the government taxes on fuel, which was quickly parroted by Hillary Clinton. Despite the media making it sound like Hillary and McCain are in agreement (which would pull Hillary closer to the center), there is a big difference between their plans for a gas tax holiday.

Again, John McCain wants the government to provide relief to Americans by getting out of the process for a few months. Hillary’s plan is to punish “Big Oil” by having the oild companies pay for the “tax holiday”. This means that Hillary is not proposing a tax holiday at all, but is tying back into Nancy Pelosi’s plan of cutting into oil company profits.

“We have a choice,” Clinton told a crowd in Hendersonville, N.C., ahead of Tuesday’s primary. “We can choose to have you continue to pay the federal gas tax this summer or we can choose to try to make the oil companies pay it out of their record profits.”

She proposed an “excess profit tax” on oil companies, although she did not name which companies should be taxed.

“(Oil companies) have record profits that they frankly are just sitting there counting because they are not doing anything new to earn it; they are just taking advantage of what’s going on,” Clinton said. “We ought to say, ‘Wait a minute, we’d rather have the oil companies pay the gas tax than the drivers of North Carolina, especially truck drivers, or the farmers, or other people who have to commute long distances.’”

What this all boils down to is actually very simple. Hillary calls her plan a tax holiday, but the plan is actually a mirror of Barak Obama’s plan - while sounding like she agrees with John McCain. We called William Jefferson Clinton, “Slick Willy”. We need to call Hillary Rodham Clinton, “Slick Hilly”.

Now, the insidious part of this whole thing is what Hillary and Nancy know that you might not have thought of yet. People “poo poo” the idea that the liberals in our country are little more than communists. Meaning they want a strong, authoritarian government that supplies most of the people’s needs and they want to redistribute wealth from everyone except the political elite. Here is another example.

When Pelosi, Obama, and Clinton talk about punishing “Big Oil”, they are talking about punishing the millions of people who have a mutual fund, a retirement fund, or a 401k.

78% of Conoco Phillips is owned by investment and mutual fund holders.

53% of Exxon Mobile is owned by investment and mutual fund holders.

Less than one percent in each of these companies is owned by insiders.

So, who pays for Hillary’s gas tax holiday? You do.

Some holiday - but that is Slick Hilly for you. She will give you an apple for free, if you will pay her for the priviledge of taking it from her. What a sham.