tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12892934.post1961119032089649624..comments2024-01-18T05:26:43.388-05:00Comments on Thunder Pig: Who Needs Oil or Ethanol When You Can Grow Algae?Bobby Cogginshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15392535989237328428noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12892934.post-73374199773981131192008-01-28T10:47:00.000-05:002008-01-28T10:47:00.000-05:00Oh TP,Huckabee is hardly a liberal. Your saying s...Oh TP,<BR/><BR/>Huckabee is hardly a liberal. Your saying so indicates how far to the right you've gone.Gordon Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07507309922707382050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12892934.post-80950921329114824592008-01-23T16:31:00.000-05:002008-01-23T16:31:00.000-05:00It would attract much of the money that has fled o...It would attract much of the money that has fled our shores, and the FairTax is a single-rate, federal retail sales tax collected only once, at the final point of purchase of new goods and services for personal consumption. Used items are not taxed. Business-to-business purchases for the production of goods and services are not taxed. It replaces federal income taxes including personal, estate, Bobby Cogginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15392535989237328428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12892934.post-39769963272890002922008-01-23T15:47:00.000-05:002008-01-23T15:47:00.000-05:00I'm no economist, but it seems to me that with a c...I'm no economist, but it seems to me that with a consumption driven economy a tax on consumption might drive spending way down.<BR/><BR/>In the long run it might really help us pull out of the materialistic consumer culture, but it's not going to help the job market a bit.Gordon Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07507309922707382050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12892934.post-84403573228923784432008-01-23T09:34:00.000-05:002008-01-23T09:34:00.000-05:00And they need to be lower...or completely done awa...And they need to be lower...or completely done away with.<BR/><BR/>I would prefer an across the board sales tax to replace all other taxes.<BR/><BR/>Taxing consumption, without regard to industry, is much better than taxing income, or having "special taxes" that discriminate against certain industries.<BR/><BR/>Lefties love the use of taxation as a social-engineering tool. Sadly, their are plentyBobby Cogginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15392535989237328428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12892934.post-89642881649693292472008-01-23T08:42:00.000-05:002008-01-23T08:42:00.000-05:00We have some of the lowest fuel taxes of any indus...We have some of the lowest fuel taxes of any industrialized nation. Your argument is a non-starter.Gordon Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07507309922707382050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12892934.post-34522706059868984602008-01-23T04:13:00.000-05:002008-01-23T04:13:00.000-05:00It is government involvement that makes fuel costs...It is government involvement that makes fuel costs so very high!<BR/><BR/>The next time you pump fual at your nearest gas station, read the tax info on the pump to see how much money the government is stealing from you, and stealing from the petroleum industry. They steal more than three times what little profit the Oil company makes from a gallon of fuel!<BR/><BR/>I can produce an alcohol-based Bobby Cogginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15392535989237328428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12892934.post-85283179519836741382008-01-22T23:38:00.000-05:002008-01-22T23:38:00.000-05:00Let's make sure that innovators like this get all ...Let's make sure that innovators like this get all that money we're giving to big coal and big oil.<BR/><BR/>It's only the free market if you give the little guy a chance.<BR/><BR/>If America wants to get off the oil merry-go-round, we have to have alternatives. We're spending taxpayer dollars propping up the very industries that others are competing against. It's Big Oil and the United States ofGordon Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07507309922707382050noreply@blogger.com