Another example of the Law of Unintended Consequences... (better known as Dumb & Dumber)

Our brilliant politicians, led by their Community Organizer, have forced gas prices up at the pump, and spent billions of our tax dollars trying to get us all into electric cars.... 

I'll spare you the numbers and the details -- but it doesn't take a Nobel Prize winning economist to figure out that these efforts would cause two things to happen - the higher price at the pump would cause folks with gasoline powered cars to drive less --- and the increasing numbers of gob'mint subsidized electric and hybrid cars would make a serious dent (pun intended) in the gas pump sales as well.

As Martha Stewart might ask, "Isn't that a good thing?" 

Yes, but for the fact that the fewer gallons sold at the pump, the fewer gasoline tax dollars roll into the revenue coffers of the politicians across the country.  And if there is one constant rule in this country -- all taxes, every tax source must INCREASE every year - not decrease!

What to do? Across the land, politicians are all coming to the same conclusion: Put an added TAX on electric and hybrid cars to make up for the revenue lost at the pumps.

In Washington state, electric-car owners this year began paying a $100 annual fee. Virginia in April approved a $64 annual fee on hybrid and electric cars.

In New Jersey, Senator Jim Whelan, a Democrat from Atlantic City, has proposed a $50 annual fee on electric and compressed natural-gas cars that would be deposited into a state fund for road and bridge maintenance.

In Washington state, electric-car owners this year began paying a $100 annual fee. Virginia in April approved a $64 annual fee on hybrid and electric cars.

Of all the possible answers to the problem, less tax revenue, one might think of gob'mint belt tightening, more efficient state departments of transportation, more efficient methods of road maintenance...   but of course these wild and crazy ideas never cross the mind of an elected politician or gob'mint, unionized public servant...   

Nope, just raise taxes and fees.... I wonder if Gob'nor O'Malley up in the Peoples Republic of Maryland, the inventor of the rain tax, has a brain trust working on this tax drain? 

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