Every once in a while, the strangest sources add proof to the verbal equation that "two wrongs don't make a right."
The rag, as is its fringe left wont, salivates at the idea of jacking up our gas taxes, proclaiming that:
In this case, the rag foams at the mouth to jack up yet another tax that doesn't need to be increased because, well, they are leftists and that's what leftists do.
If, for example, the issue were ink and our economy ran on that petroleum-based product... would the daily democrat be so strident in their demands to raise taxes on that commodity?
Of course not. They are all about forcing us to pay more on, well, damned near everything.
We, according to those morons and their fellow democrats, should bend over because the 9 legal dwarfs threw a fit, wrote a letter, and tried to make everyone believe they could take over the legislature.
They can't, of course. But that doesn't stop the clown who wrote today's garbage from trying to convince us that they can.
Jack up taxes to pay for this, they tell us. No cuts allowed, they tell us.
But when it comes to jacking up THEIR taxes, these idiots throw a fit and double down on their B&O tax break from that same legislature, a tax break that WE are picking up the tab for.
The fact is that billions... TENS of billions collected by the gas tax are being flat out wasted in ways that are completely and utterly criminal. Capone is, no doubt, spinning in his grave.
But the idea that we should jack up the gas tax as long as one cent of it goes to anything BUT roads... such as BRT scams or loot rail rip offs or, for example, the extortion of prevailing wage?
That's not just blithering idiocy those advocating this insanity are utilizing. That is the kind of Detroit-centric, rank idiocy the fringe left around here are known for.
The rag, then, has provided their half of the "two wrongs" scenario.
The second is the partisan hatred of the completely irrelevant, sniveling whiner Jimmy "Molehill" Moeller (Embarrassment - 49)
Here's Molehill's stupidity:
See the words "gas tax increase" in his vomitus here?
See anything in his babble about changing any of the extortion going on in these transportation projects?
How many times has this clown voted against.... or spoken out for... any of the steps to save money in WADOT? Where's his efforts towards getting rid of the money shuffle known as the sales tax on the equipment and materials for these projects that frequently cause 9% of the money to be shifted to the general fund from the transportation budget because when the materials for these state projects are purchased, the state charges itself sales tax, a roughly 9% self-imposed burden that's a total rip off.
In short, that means for every $100 million spent on these projects, roughly $89 million or so is shifted to the general funds of the state, the county or the cities where the project takes place.
I get that Moeller is bitter. I get that he looks like an idiot because the CRC scam was exposed and blew up in his face. I get that he's now just reduced to being yet another angry leftist. I get all of that. But so what?
What has Molehill done about that and the many other issues confronting us over the system he's chained himself to?
Besides wrongfully taking perdiem every session, I mean.
If the rag (And scum like Moeller) want to make this happen, they're going to have to do that which they refused to do on the CRC rip off.
They're going to have to compromise.
Let's start with a referendum clause.
Yeah, yeah, I know: the left doesn't give a shit about the will of the people. The non-existent "leadership" in the senate likely doesn't have a testicle between them big enough to force this issue, but what's say we make that a requirement?
Let's start with ending the sales tax extortion.
Let's start with a requirement that every nickel collected in gas tax be limited to roads and roads only instead of wasted on massive, Big Dig - Bertha wastes of money slapping us in the face right now?
Let's begin a discussion there. And let's have Jimmy "Molehill" Moeller jam his "compromise means doing to my way" shtick directly up his has. (For a primer on Molehill's idea of what compromise actually means, just look up "Moeller" and "CRC." There, you will see a portrait of precisely how big of an ass this clown can really be.)
So, Moeller's little dig provides the second part of the equation in the left's common core math of "compromise is defined as doing what we tell you."
Meanwhile, until these issues are addressed (And maybe after) not one dime in tax increases should see the light of day.
The rag, as is its fringe left wont, salivates at the idea of jacking up our gas taxes, proclaiming that:
Regardless of how much motorists are paying at the pump, the United States is in dire need of infrastructure investment. That investment should be made no matter what the headlines are saying about gas prices.That, of course, is the first wrong.
In this case, the rag foams at the mouth to jack up yet another tax that doesn't need to be increased because, well, they are leftists and that's what leftists do.
If, for example, the issue were ink and our economy ran on that petroleum-based product... would the daily democrat be so strident in their demands to raise taxes on that commodity?
Of course not. They are all about forcing us to pay more on, well, damned near everything.
We, according to those morons and their fellow democrats, should bend over because the 9 legal dwarfs threw a fit, wrote a letter, and tried to make everyone believe they could take over the legislature.
They can't, of course. But that doesn't stop the clown who wrote today's garbage from trying to convince us that they can.
Jack up taxes to pay for this, they tell us. No cuts allowed, they tell us.
But when it comes to jacking up THEIR taxes, these idiots throw a fit and double down on their B&O tax break from that same legislature, a tax break that WE are picking up the tab for.
The fact is that billions... TENS of billions collected by the gas tax are being flat out wasted in ways that are completely and utterly criminal. Capone is, no doubt, spinning in his grave.
But the idea that we should jack up the gas tax as long as one cent of it goes to anything BUT roads... such as BRT scams or loot rail rip offs or, for example, the extortion of prevailing wage?
That's not just blithering idiocy those advocating this insanity are utilizing. That is the kind of Detroit-centric, rank idiocy the fringe left around here are known for.
The rag, then, has provided their half of the "two wrongs" scenario.
The second is the partisan hatred of the completely irrelevant, sniveling whiner Jimmy "Molehill" Moeller (Embarrassment - 49)
Here's Molehill's stupidity:
Jim Moeller · Follow · Top Commenter · Clark College -- Vancouver, Washington · 138 followers
And when this paper talks of the "legislature" let's us at least be truthful. It was the REPUBLICAN SENATE that held up any transportation package as the price for power and the Majority Coalition. The House had already passed the transportation package for infrastructure projects across Washington, TWICE.
See the words "gas tax increase" in his vomitus here?
See anything in his babble about changing any of the extortion going on in these transportation projects?
How many times has this clown voted against.... or spoken out for... any of the steps to save money in WADOT? Where's his efforts towards getting rid of the money shuffle known as the sales tax on the equipment and materials for these projects that frequently cause 9% of the money to be shifted to the general fund from the transportation budget because when the materials for these state projects are purchased, the state charges itself sales tax, a roughly 9% self-imposed burden that's a total rip off.
In short, that means for every $100 million spent on these projects, roughly $89 million or so is shifted to the general funds of the state, the county or the cities where the project takes place.
I get that Moeller is bitter. I get that he looks like an idiot because the CRC scam was exposed and blew up in his face. I get that he's now just reduced to being yet another angry leftist. I get all of that. But so what?
What has Molehill done about that and the many other issues confronting us over the system he's chained himself to?
Besides wrongfully taking perdiem every session, I mean.
If the rag (And scum like Moeller) want to make this happen, they're going to have to do that which they refused to do on the CRC rip off.
They're going to have to compromise.
Let's start with a referendum clause.
Yeah, yeah, I know: the left doesn't give a shit about the will of the people. The non-existent "leadership" in the senate likely doesn't have a testicle between them big enough to force this issue, but what's say we make that a requirement?
Let's start with ending the sales tax extortion.
Let's start with a requirement that every nickel collected in gas tax be limited to roads and roads only instead of wasted on massive, Big Dig - Bertha wastes of money slapping us in the face right now?
Let's begin a discussion there. And let's have Jimmy "Molehill" Moeller jam his "compromise means doing to my way" shtick directly up his has. (For a primer on Molehill's idea of what compromise actually means, just look up "Moeller" and "CRC." There, you will see a portrait of precisely how big of an ass this clown can really be.)
So, Moeller's little dig provides the second part of the equation in the left's common core math of "compromise is defined as doing what we tell you."
Meanwhile, until these issues are addressed (And maybe after) not one dime in tax increases should see the light of day.
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First, FWIW, printer's ink is no longer petroleum based. The left made a big fuss, starting in the late 80's over the "pollution" caused by printer's ink. After much fussing and some typical leftist blackmail, almost all printers switched over to "soy based ink."
Now, the petroleum previously used to make printer's ink is mixed into "bunker fuel" and is burned in ship engines. The base stock (for printer ink) was once some of the left over "dregs" from the oil refining process. Long chain hydrocarbons that had not been "cracked" in the refining process that left a heavy grease-like product.
This petroleum base was purified (somewhat) and some was turned into "petroleum jelly" and another portion was sold to printing ink manufacturers. (Whatever remained was mixed into heavy oil for burring in boilers and ships' engines).
Now the "big stink" from the greenie left was about "volatile organic compounds" -- of which printing is a major contributor as a stationary producer of VOCs. However, it was NEVER from the printing ink! The conversion of printing ink to soy base did not change the output of VOCs by the printing industry. The petroleum base used did not evaporate, thus it only made "VOCs" in the tiniest quantity, if at all. Indeed, since most printed products eventually end up in land fills, printer's ink was one of the efficient ways to "sequester" carbon.
Printers ink "dries" by 1. absorption into the paper, 2. a curing process (where the ink naturally hardens from exposure to air), and 3. the release of barely detectible amounts of VOCs. This is true no matter what the base stock is -- it is the same process that Soy based ink uses.
The VOCs in printing comes from alcohol (used in the "fountain solution" (mixed with water) and from the solvents used to clean the printing plates and presses. The printing industry (collectively) has reduced the production of VOCs -- not by the change to soy based inks, but rather by using low VOC solvents and by reducing the alcohol used in the fountain solutions. The net result of the change to soy based ink is the burning of what once went to the land fill (the petroleum base), so the conversion to soy ink increased the release of carbon into the atmosphere as CO2.
As for gas taxes, the FEDERAL government is the worst place to increase gas taxes. The Federal tax has never been "earmarked" for roads (it goes into the general fund) and only a portion of the Federal Gas Tax has been used to fund the Federal "highway tax fund." (The highway tax fund was first created back in the 1950s as a means to help the states finance the building of the Interstate highway system.
Of course, taxes collected on fuel (both state and federal) get stolen for many purposes beyond the "user tax" paradigm -- to fund transit, bike paths, and "other things" that "enhance the driving experience" including museums and other things that are barely related to highways.
We would all be much better off if road building was offered to private companies, who would issue bonds (perhaps a public-private arrangement so that "municipal bonds" with their lower interest rates could be used. The users could pay for these new/improved highways through tolls collected by transponders and backed up with photographic methods. (This eliminates toll plazas and their attendant congestion and delays.) Better the Federal government get out of the road building business and leave it to the states ... so California can build bike lanes and put picnic tables on the Golden Gate bridge ... while Washington might be able to build additional freeway lanes in the Seattle area along with a bridge or three across the Columbia without being forced to have trolley cars.
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