President Donald Trump says he wants the gas tax to be temporarily suspended as [empire continues its terrorism campaign against Iran] into its 11th week and keeps oil prices elevated.
He told CBS News Monday morning he wants the tax suspended “for a period of time” and would want it reintroduced “when gas goes down.”
Asked by reporters in the Oval Office later in the day how long the gas tax would be suspended, the president responded, “'Til it’s appropriate.”
Suspending the gas tax would require an act of Congress. Currently, the tax is 18.4 cents per gallon of gas and 24.4 cents per gallon of diesel.
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oh yeah its a horrible move. Does not relistically alter the price in any way meaningful to the average person but takes away monies that goes to infrastrucuture which is then not done or the monies have to come from elsewhere haveing all sorts of ripple effects. A gas tax is a good thing. If we taxed it more sooner it would have pushed the needle toward electric and the current oil emergency would not be as catastrophic. Heck if we had done more sooner then maybe removing it now would be significant.