Tomorrow is the “rush it through day” for Obama to announce his plans for restricting gun usage as it is clear that he will not let this crisis go to waste. Sure, you can be sure that he knows all of the stats of how violence stats have been going down – it doesn’t matter. And if things go the way I think, he will act as if Congress doesn’t matter either with an overly broad use of Executive Orders (some of which, I believe, will end up in court); one of them will be to establish a gun registry. No, it won’t be a brand new one, but a patchwork quilt of existing information that, all of a sudden, will no longer be deleted. It will just sit there, waiting. For some next crisis.
But once again, we see Government getting what it deserves – see a problem? Government has to enact a ‘fix”. Start meddling in other areas, to “fix” newly perceived problems? All of a sudden, that first “Government fix” is broken – by Government. So, Government being used to “Govt-think”, has a solution! But has it been thought through? Not in this case!
An on-again, off-again move by the Obama administration to scrap the federal gas tax in favor of a pay-per-mile fee would boost the tab to Americans as high as 250 percent, raising their current tax of 18.4 cents a gallon to as high as 46 cents, according to a new government study.
But without a tax increase, said the Government Accountability Office study, the government’s highway fund is going to go dry. One reason the fund is going broke: President Obama’s push for fuel efficient cars has resulted in better mileage, and fewer stops at the pump.
So, cars created a need for infrastructure improvement a hundred years + ago (and notice – cars came BEFORE paved roads; the opposite of what some central planners claim in genuflecting to that movie theme of “build it and they will come”). So Govt put a tax on gas to pay for it. Problem solved? Not really – certainly here in NH, the Highway fund has been bilked for all kinds of reasons other than paying for road repair – and the same goes for other States and the Feds.
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