Show Me The Taxes

The Green Party in Canada has proposed a 12 cent per liter tax to help avert a global disaster.

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/222051

This carbon tax will help reduce automobile use - which is ridiculous, but that's not even the best part.

"We will use those carbon taxes to reduce taxes elsewhere."

Those are the words of Elizabeth May, the leader of The Green Party. Of all the stories I've read today, this one at least made me chuckle.

Anytime, any politician, anywhere, tells you that one tax will be used to reduce another, you can bet they inhaled at one time or another.

After I finished the chuckle, I realized that it won't be long before someone proposes the same stupid idea here. Local, state, federal - remember the days when you could actually see what the tax portion of the gas price was?

We, the sheep, don't know how baaaaaaadly we are being fleeced, but you have to wonder if we'd do much about it even if we did. My guess is, if we were forced to look at just how much we are being taxed every time we pull up to the pump, we'd be less inclined to act like sheep.

Maybe we could even start acting like Americans, regardless of our party, and start demanding that more of our hard earned money stay in our pockets, not in theirs!

From Bush to Pelosi, from Spitzer on down; show us the taxes at the pump and let's see how long those taxes keep rising when the re-election blues return.