Posted by
Rich from Paso on Friday, June 27, 2008 4:19:49 PM
Barack Obama came out a while back with a "windfall" profits tax on Big Oil's recent profits as his method of dealing with the high costs of gasoline. This is a proposal is fundamentally flawed because a) the oil companies invested millions of previous profits to get those billions of profits; and b) because that tax will do ZERO to reduce the actual costs at the pump and will more than likely cause them to go up as Big Oil transfers this cost (as they do all others) to the consumer.
If I were a McCain advisor, I would advise McCain to propose his own set of taxes, calling them "excess luxury taxes". Since Obama and all liberals rail against all "excess" profits, McCain should start railing against the excess luxury of the wealthy elite in America. These people are the same people, like Al Gore and Leo Dicaprio, that fly around in Gulfstream jets and ride in limosines, yet want to tell you and I how we are destroying the earth with our meager lifestyles. These wealthy limosine liberals seem to have excessive luxuries that have insolated them from the plights of real Americans that have to pay $4.79 a gallon to get to their second job just to make ends meet. The average American can't afford the $20,000 hybrid cars, the $10 toxic compact flourescent light bulbs, the E85 capable cars, and don't want to keep their thermostat at 60 degrees in the winter and 80 degrees in the summer. While these hypocrites tell us to "sacrifice" the hypocrite eco-communist liberals live in their 20,000 square foot houses, have fleets of cars, fleets of yachts and fly around alone in fuel guzzling private jets. It is these eco-communist liberals that can afford all of this green technology and they are the last to buy it. Yet it is you and I, the average joe, that is supposedly causing the "man-made" global warming hoax. So without further ado, here are the "excess luxury" taxes:
1. An excessive luxury tax of $10,000 on the sale of all non-commercial use limosines.
2. An excessive luxury tax of $1,000 per operating hour on all non-commercial jets that seat fewer than 20 people. If the non-commerical jet does seat more than 20 people, there will be an additional $1,000 per empty seat fine (based on the average commerical jet seating capacity) on top of the $1,000 per operating hour tax.
3. An excessive luxury tax of $500 per square foot on all non-commerical homes above 6,000 square feet and a $1,000 per bedroom tax on all non-commerical houses with more than five bedrooms.
4. An excessive luxury tax of $15,000 per automobile on the ownership of six or more automobiles, to include motorcycles, RVs and trucks.
5. An excessive luxury tax of $1,000 per foot on all non-commercial watercraft longer than 15 feet.
6. An excessive luxury tax of $20,000 per residence on all non-commerical houses above two houses.
7. An excessive luxury of $100 per kilowatt hour on the non-commericial use of electricity beyond 20,000 kilowatt hours per year.
It is about time that these limosine liberals put their money where their mouth is. If they think that the average American, who can't afford their solutions to their bogus global warming, are the ones that should be buying their solutions, they should start leading by example and start driving around in hybrids, using CFLs, cuttign down on the amount of electricity they use and what not. I want to see these hypocrite liberals start putting up or shutting up on global warming. Maybe then these liberals will stop with their selfish, holier-than-thou NIMBY commandments on what you and I should be "sacrificing" for Mother Gaia, and get the liberals Congress to open up ANWAR and the coastal waters to oil drilling. Only then will they be helping the average Americans they have always claimed to protect.