Anti-Kerry Email - Complete with Gas Tax Calculator!!!

[Avalux]

I tell ya - those Bushies are so clever - plan your summer vacation to include "Kerry's" 50 cent gas tax. Here the text:


John Kerry supported a 50 cent per gallon increase in the gas tax, which would cost the average American family $657 a year.

Today, Bush-Cheney '04 unveils the Kerry gas tax calculator, so voters can find out exactly how much Kerry's gas tax increase would cost them at the pump.

How much would it cost you? Find out today!

Based on the car you drive the Kerry gas tax calculator will show you how much John Kerry's 50 cent gas tax would cost your family. Planning a trip? The gas tax calculator will give you directions, and let you know how much more you'd be paying if you add in Kerry's tax. Just go to:

http://www.GeorgeWBush.com/Calculator/

Sincerely,

Terry Nelson
National Political Director

[hippiechick]

1. How in God's name

... are current gas prices Kerry's fault ?!?!?

These morons amaze me with their bald-faced lies.


:hippie:

[dtseiler]

2. Not prices. Taxes.

They aren't saying the prices for crude are his fault. They're saying he wanted to raise the tax on gasoline. I haven't looked at factcheck.org yet but personally I don't think it's a bad idea.

The fact is gasoline combustion engines harm the environment and increase our dependence on foreign governments, especially Saudi Arabia, and you're fooling yourself if you don't think that money goes to fund terrorists.

A higher tax should have the effect of reducing consumption, and hopefully increase the push for fuel efficient (read: hybrid engine) automobiles.

[Avalux]

5. I understand your point -

but Mr. and Mrs. Average Joe don't care.

[hippiechick]

6. Exactly. It's a hot issue right now ...

... and on the tip of everyone's tongues, so to tie Kerry's name to it in any way, shape or form will confuse the Sheeple.


:hippie:

[Avalux]

4. This is infuriating

The average person reading this e-mail would assume Kerry's going to impose a 50 cent gas tax if elected. Another damn scare tactic and totally misleading.

[Mz Pip]

3. Someone

should point out to these morans how much moneythey would save if they traded in their SUVs for hybrid cars.

MzPip
:dem:

[mhr]

7. We Are Missing The Point! This Is What 200 Million In Propaganda Buys

The Democrats are up against a spending machine that will pull every trick in the book to persuade each voter that somehow Kerry is bad for them individually.

[flpoljunkie]

8. Sparosnare, perhaps we ought not do the work of Bush campaign for them...

I refer you instead to this link: http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=163

The ad says Kerry supported a 50-cent-a-gallon increase in gasoline taxes, which is also true. But that was a decade ago and Kerry's support was lukewarm at best.

Taxing Gasoline?

Kerry's support  for a 50-cent-per-gallon increase in the federal tax on gasoline was so brief and lukewarm that it was barely noted at the time -- a decade ago. One Boston Globe news story from 1994 quotes Kerry as complaining that the Concord Coalition's scorecard had not rated him highly enough as a deficit-cutter: "It doesn’t reflect my $43 billion package of cuts or my support for a 50-cent increase in the gas tax," the Globe quoted Kerry as saying. But neither the Bush-Cheney campaign nor FactCheck.org turned up any direct report of how and when Kerry had actually backed the 50-cent increase. Kerry sponsored no such bill in the Senate, and did not add his name to a bill offered by Sen. Charles Robb in 1993, to increase the gasoline tax 10 cents per gallon each year for five years.

[Avalux]

9. I did not post this because I support it -

It needs to be seen and debunked. I will hear about this from repug acquaintances - and thanks to you - will be better able to refute it. :hi:

[Auntie Bush]

10. Kerry should put out a similar calculator showing how much

money all those tax breaks gave to the rich. I'd love to see how much all the Bush people and corporations got back. It should be public information to see how much they saved. I'd sure would love to know how much Cheney and Halliburton saved.

We should also have a calculator that shows all the additional taxes we pay, like school and state taxes, due to the Bush tax cuts. Compare how much he gave back to how much they rose. The whole tax cut for the middle class is pure fuzzy math. Kerry needs to push that fact.

[MsUnderstood]

11. I hate to go off topic

But was anyone else disturbed at the picture along the top of bush leaning on children for support? Wasn't that prophetic?

It is a random image so you might have to refresh the screen look at several disturbing images before seeing Bush leaning on the little chidren.

[Snivi Yllom]

12. have you seen the ad? It's something moveon would come up with

Tongue in cheek in humor while bashing your opponent.

[AmericanErrorist]

13. They are hypocrites on this issue

Making America Pay: The $24 Billion Bush-Cheney Gas Tax
The Bush Administration's failed policies have created record high prices for gas. Americans are paying 12% more for gas since former oil industry executives Bush and Cheney took office on the pledge that their ties to the oil industry would lead to lower gas prices. Instead of helping consumers who will pay $24 billion more for gas this year, Bush and Cheney are aiding oil companies' record profits and increasing American dependence on foreign countries.

Bush Gas Tax Hike Costs Americans $24 Billion More.

Economist David Rosenberg told CNN’s Lou Dobbs that “pain at the pump has wiped out more than $20 billion of the coming $40 billion in tax refund checks.” How? On January 5, consumers paid $1.51 for an average gallon of gas. As of today – less than three months later – they’re paying $1.75 per gallon, a 24 cent increase since January. According to the Wall Street Journal, “every penny increase in a gallon of gas costs consumers $1 billion a year.” That’s a $24 billion gas tax hike this year alone.
But that’s not all: nationwide gas prices have risen 12% since 2000, and are expected to skyrocket upward to $1.83 a gallon this summer – a 17% increase since Bush took office.
Guy Caruso, the administrator of the Energy Information Administration told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that an average family will spend about $1,700 for gas in 2004. At today’s gas prices, this means that an average family will spend over $300 more for gas than they would have if prices were at the level they were the week Bush took office.

http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/releases/pr_2004_0330.html