Bush: Gas Prices ‘Tax On Working People’
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Yeah, it’s a tax on non-working people too. I don’t care which party you belong to, if ANY candidate tells you they WILL lower gas prices, their LYING. THE ONLY ones that can lower gas prices are the gas companies themselves, by building MORE oil refineries. (Until some alternative fuel comes along) You think the liberals will let that happen? Oh NO, because it would interfere with the breeding habitats of the deer tick or some crap like that. LOOK, if we are EVER going to pay less for gasoline, we are going to have to stick it back to the oil companies. Rather then going grocery shopping every other day, I have decided to go once a week. With my big 8 cylinder pick up, I’m sure it will be just like tossing a lounge chair off the bow of a cruse ship. Yeah, they won’t miss it, but it sure will help me.
Imagine if we all did that?
“No question rising gasoline prices are like a tax on our working people,” President Bush said today, blaming the problem on American dependency on foreign oil.
And no question, he said, “We are not in a recession.”
He also accused his party’s rival candidates of campaigning with pledges “to tax the rich.”
Bush made his remarks in New Orleans, at a joint press conference with the leaders of Mexico and Canada during a two-day hemispheric summit.
Bush was asked if rising gas prices will not “erase or certainly erode the benefit” of the Economic Stimulus Act which he pushed and which Congress approved – with billions of dollars in tax rebates promised for American households in May. And he was asked “how deep and how long” the recession will be.
“I’m obviously concerned for our consumers,” Bush said. “All the more reason to have passed a rebate, tax relief. And all the more reason for the United States Congress to keep the tax relief I passed permanent. We got people out there campaigning, “well, we’re just going to tax the rich.”
“You can’t raise enough money to meet their spending appetites by taxing the so-called rich,” the president said. “Every one of those so-called ‘tax the rich’ schemes end up taxing the middle class families. And in a time of economic uncertainty we need tax certainty. In a time of rising gasoline prices, we need to be sending a message to all Americans, we’re not going to raise your taxes.”
The president insists that congressional reluctance to explore vast new resources of domestic oil – notably in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge – has exacerbated the problem of rising gas prices.
“What’s happening is, is that we’ve had an energy policy that neglected hydrocarbons in the United States for a long period of time, and now we’re paying the price,” Bush said. ” We should have been exploring for oil and gas in ANWR, for example. But, no, we made the decision — our Congress kept preventing us from opening up new areas to explore in environmentally friendly ways. And now we’re becoming, as a result, more and more dependent on foreign sources of oil.
“Fortunately, Canada and Mexico are our biggest providers, for which we are grateful,” he said standing alongside Canada’s Harper and Mexico’s Calderon, “But our energy policy is — wasn’t effective over the past decades, and now we’re paying the price.”
Bush was asked “how deep and how long” the economic recession will be in the United States.
“First of all… we’re not in a recession,” Bush said, “We’re in a slowdown. We grew in the fourth quarter of last year. We haven’t had first quarter growth statistics yet. But there’s no question we’re in a slowdown. And people are concerned about it, obviously. I’m — of all the three of us standing up here — I’m probably the most concerned about the slowdown. After all, it’s affecting the people who I have the honor of representing. ‘
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