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Eliminate the Gas Tax?


Jeff Dircksen
August 19, 2011

TaxGirl asks the following question at Forbes:  "Should the federal gas tax be reduced or eliminated in order to jump start the economy?"

Would it help?  Would it make a difference at all?  Would our infrastructure implode without the funding?  Share your thoughts with us and with TaxGirl.


 

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Submitted by moveover2011 at: January 7, 2012
Keep the gastax and bring our prices back to $ 0.57 before clinton ...after bush $ 0.97 The eccess cannot move the economy.gas wars in the past reduced the price from $ 0.57 to@ 0 . 19..1960tis