[cutting the gas tax] only makes sense if you hate taxes on principle and want any way to cut them down....
Or, of course, if you think that gas is currently overtaxed relative to other things.
You, presumably, don't believe that, which is fine. Your blindness to the very possibility that someone might believe it is much less fine.
Similar comments apply to the other parts of your post, but rather than elaborate in detail, let me just suggest that if you start by pretending that everybody agrees with your assumptions and then infer that they're stupid if they don't agree with your conclusions, you're a) never going to convince anybody of anything and b) never going to learn anything. You are free, of course, not to care.
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Date: 2014-10-28 22:27 (UTC)Or, of course, if you think that gas is currently overtaxed relative to other things.
You, presumably, don't believe that, which is fine. Your blindness to the very possibility that someone might believe it is much less fine.
Similar comments apply to the other parts of your post, but rather than elaborate in detail, let me just suggest that if you start by pretending that everybody agrees with your assumptions and then infer that they're stupid if they don't agree with your conclusions, you're a) never going to convince anybody of anything and b) never going to learn anything. You are free, of course, not to care.