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Will Senator McCain's "gas tax holiday" be helpful to you personally?

TexanInHawaii April 17, 2008 23:07:27

"This week, I laid out an economic plan aimed at providing immediate and long-term relief for all American families. One of the key components of this plan is a suspension of the federal gas tax on gasoline from Memorial Day to Labor Day of this year.

The effect of this "gas tax holiday" will be an immediate economic stimulus - taking a few dollars off the price of a tank of gas every time you fill up. And because the cost of gas affects the price of food, packaging and just about everything else, this immediate step will spread economic relief to every family in America.".....John McCain
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  • +5 raves foxy July 30, 2008 15:00:28
    foxy

    Yes

    IF WE GET BEHIND JOHN MCCAIN WE JUST MIGHT COME OUT OF THIS MESS THAT OUR COUNTRY IS IN.
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  • daniels97 November 05, 2008 00:35:35
    daniels97

    No

    Hey McCain,
    If we reduce gas prices, we will be in need of more oil, once again leading us to global warming! Go back to being senator! Leave the country out this!
  • Terry November 01, 2008 06:18:02
    Terry

    Yes

    GO McCain. AN HONEST MAN. MY TYPE OF MAN. INTEGRITY. HISPANICS FOR MacCAIN
  • paintedponies October 30, 2008 16:10:50
    paintedponies

    Yes

    SOUNDS LIKE A WINNING IDEA TO ME.
  • gene42243 October 29, 2008 13:41:24
    gene42243

    No

    To: obamabeatsmccain

    Your answers read: smart person?! But the brunt of your conversation is "hog-wash". You, like so many others out there, choose to ignore the past associations of Obama (either that - or you do not care).
    Iran's leader says the holocaust didn't happen. And wants to "wipe the Jews from the face of the earth"? Obama has close ties to these folks - yet you are willing to see this race decimated again - for your $1000 back in taxes?
    You should not call yourself an "American".
  • Gary gene42243 October 29, 2008 18:20:34
    Gary
    Amen... why can't America see this...? He is such a racist, baby killer, Muslim.. please America think before you vote.. do you want your hard earned money divided up among those millions who don't work, and are looking for a free government handout..

    That is what McObam is about.. Big government..
  • Shiloh's Angel-2012 October 24, 2008 00:06:16 (edited)
    Shiloh's Angel-2012

    Yes

    This will help us!McCain/Palin are not making false promises! These are real ones! OBama would sell the gas too you but it wouldn't be a tax holiday or a holiday for anything anymore!
  • THE JOKE IS ON ME October 22, 2008 00:23:51
    THE JOKE IS ON ME

    No

    WHEN MY KIDS GROW UP THEY ARE GOING TO LOOK AT US LIKE SOME A** HO'S
    THAT RAN THE USA IN THE GROUND.
  • summer October 21, 2008 19:32:20 (edited)
    summer

    No

    Gas prices are getting lower and better without Mc Cain. But I must tell you MC Cain plans to tax working peoples health insurance benefits for the first time. He proposes to replace a benefit worth about $12.000 for an active worker with tax creidts worth $5000 for a family and $2.500 for an individual. Mc Cain/ Palin want to extend the tax give a ways to big corporations and the top 2% WEALTHIEST people in America. They want to cut the Capital gains tax, the lions share of which is paid by MILLIONAIRES. They want to continue the WAR in Iraq at a cost of 12 BILLION per MONTH and all this spending will add TRILLIONS to already ernomous national debt (which was a surPLUS eight years ago) Mc Cain wants to cut Medicare by 1,3 TRILLION over the next 10 years, The result: It will make it harder to get the medical care one needs more Doctors will stop accepting medicare patiens. Mc Cain has a history of advocating Social Security CUTS and he has pushed a privatization plan that could have left retired people even more devasted by recent economic downturn. Mc Cains policy puts our nations retirement safety net at RISK. MC Cain has a record of promoting less financial regulation. That is not what the country needs right now. Our children and grandchildren will be paying with a life ti...
    Gas prices are getting lower and better without Mc Cain. But I must tell you MC Cain plans to tax working peoples health insurance benefits for the first time. He proposes to replace a benefit worth about $12.000 for an active worker with tax creidts worth $5000 for a family and $2.500 for an individual. Mc Cain/ Palin want to extend the tax give a ways to big corporations and the top 2% WEALTHIEST people in America. They want to cut the Capital gains tax, the lions share of which is paid by MILLIONAIRES. They want to continue the WAR in Iraq at a cost of 12 BILLION per MONTH and all this spending will add TRILLIONS to already ernomous national debt (which was a surPLUS eight years ago) Mc Cain wants to cut Medicare by 1,3 TRILLION over the next 10 years, The result: It will make it harder to get the medical care one needs more Doctors will stop accepting medicare patiens. Mc Cain has a history of advocating Social Security CUTS and he has pushed a privatization plan that could have left retired people even more devasted by recent economic downturn. Mc Cains policy puts our nations retirement safety net at RISK. MC Cain has a record of promoting less financial regulation. That is not what the country needs right now. Our children and grandchildren will be paying with a life time of debt if Mc Cain is elected. Younger Americans will never achieve the standard of living that your generation enjoyed. Perhaps that is the reason why Senator Obama is so popular among the young voters. They get the picture. Vote for Obama
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  • pA October 17, 2008 03:57:44
    pA

    Yes

    While it wouldn't have been a long term solution, the American people needed a solution that would put money back in their pockets when they need it most....which is NOW!
  • +1 raves
    cj2008 October 16, 2008 07:03:48
    cj2008

    Yes

    Of course, a cut in the tax at the gas pump would help. The price of everything has been going up. Some relief would be helpful.
  • +2 raves
    Haleluya October 14, 2008 21:43:14
    Haleluya

    Yes

    McCain is a reformer and anything he propose is for the American people. Obama is an unknown, unqualified with a shady associates , helping him for his career. He cannot be trusted.
  • +2 raves
    kittkatt33 October 12, 2008 21:13:31
    kittkatt33

    Yes

    John mccain is definitley the choice for our next president. He couldn't be any more clearer by letting us know that this country will be resolved. Yes to lower gas prices! Yes to extra child tax credit. Yes to 5,000 for any insurance we choose. Mccain 08!
  • americanbychoice October 10, 2008 13:09:39
    americanbychoice

    Yes

    I think this would be great, but the opec would just raise the price, AGAIN!
    look what is happening today 10/10/2008 the price of the barrel is lower and now they want to stop production, just to raise the price BACK up!
  • +1 raves
    Brandon October 01, 2008 01:38:52 (edited)
    Brandon

    Yes

    its a good decion but who got us into the mess, the republican bush! Like my grandpa said and he's a republican he saids he's nothing but a democrate in a republican suit!
  • +1 raves
    vet September 27, 2008 02:20:52
    vet

    Undecided

    if our food goes down as well then that would be great but i don't think that they are going to lower their prices for those days do you. businesses are suffering, but i will take any break that i can get.
  • +3 raves
    John September 22, 2008 03:59:55
    John

    Yes

    I'm not a Republican and I am not a Democrat, I am an American,
    We have one practical choice for the position of Commander in Chief of U.S.A.
    If we had more to choose from it may be a different answer: However" John McCain is the man for the position, hands down, any other opinion is just that! We cannot afford to allow the misrepresentation of the citizens of the United States be dictacted by the media, and politically driven, deep pocket socialists. We haven't lost the battle yet, but we are close to surrendering ourselves to becoming something we will surely regret. Is there a text book nation in the world that we would want to mirror?
  • +2 raves
    TexanIn... John September 22, 2008 04:33:24 (edited)
    TexanInHawaii
    Thank you, John, for such an intelligent answer. whoever you are.
  • haas91 September 21, 2008 23:00:03
    haas91

    No

    What happens after Labor day. We need to figure out how to take the pressure off PERMANANTLY. Drilling in the US, going to "smart" cars or electric cars etc. McCain is sugar coating the real issue.
  • +2 raves
    Sarge September 18, 2008 03:01:21
    Sarge

    Yes

    an 18 cent decrease is welcome at any time for gas. They should come up with one for heating oil for New England. Any way, I'd vote for McCain regaurdless. I can't afford any more taxes, and the other guy has prommised raised taxes.
  • mccainhead September 18, 2008 00:09:13
    mccainhead

    Yes

    Dumb survey
  • +1 raves
    southern gal September 17, 2008 03:45:20
    southern gal

    Yes

    think your quesitons are bias to obama. need to provide more bi-partisan comments. you are obviously trying to get people to vote for obama when all you have to say about him is the bump good, and yet McCain's attempt to try to help our citizens is at least better than just giving a bump... :(
    Sad that our citizens will even think of someone so unqualified as obama!!!!
  • +1 raves
    TexanIn... souther... September 17, 2008 04:24:36
    TexanInHawaii
    Sorry, you so misread that...I am SOOO far from an Obama supporter. My question itself was intended to be unbiased and the quote from McCain came directly (cut and paste) from an email that I receive daily from his campaign.

    McCain/Palin '08
  • Jwalden --- Constitution Party September 16, 2008 17:48:46
    Jwalden --- Constitution Party

    Undecided

    savings is savings. The argument against the gas tax holiday is 'road and bridge construction and maintanance'. If 'our wounderfoul congress' is so concerned with the people and the safety of our roads and bridges, let them cut their salaries to 1980 levels, and use that difference to 'spur the economy'.
    safety roads bridges cut salaries 1980 levels difference spur economy safety roads bridges cut salaries 1980 levels difference spur economy safety roads bridges cut salaries 1980 levels difference spur economy
  • +1 raves
    Jwalden... Jwalden... September 16, 2008 17:50:04
    Jwalden --- Constitution Party
    started to vote undecided. by the time i finished setting comment i meant to change my vote to yes.
  • +1 raves
    Confederate_love89 September 12, 2008 01:32:29
    Confederate_love89

    Yes

    Yes. Not only would this help me personally but it would help the country economically.
  • cindy September 10, 2008 22:57:23
    cindy

    No

    Gas prices affects us all but lowering the gas prices for a holiday isn;t enough. because when the holiday's are over. Everyone has to go back to their normal routine of getting the kids to school, getting themselves to work, getting the kids to their sports events and practices. things go back to the normal, so a few days of lowered gas prices means that i enjoy lowered gas prices for a few days. Now that reality kicks back in what do we do about higher gas prices
  • +4 raves
    Doz September 09, 2008 00:16:32
    Doz

    Yes

    I would vote for McCain because he has integrity, and I believe that he will change things. I vote for McCain because I prefer to vote for a man who physically is unable to place his hand over his heart during the national Anthem rather than a man who makes a choice not to do so because of some reason that only he knows. I prefer a man who loves his country rather than a person's whose wife is only now proud to be an American and who says that America is a mean country. I prefer to vote for a man and his vice president because together they will make a change, and I prefer to vote for a man who I can trust. Trust is something that I do not feel with Obama.
  • +3 raves
    TheGuns September 08, 2008 00:32:45
    TheGuns

    Yes

    Absolutey! if McCain wins the election, the government wont need that money anyways cause he will cut away all of the liberals wasteful spending, especially the spending by governent officials to help themselves, rather than our great country.
  • +2 raves
    patty September 07, 2008 03:04:38
    patty

    Yes

    absolutely! Senator McCain is a smart man of integrity we can trust..excuse me..has he not proven how much he is willing to sacrifice for the betterment of you and me and our country?! How many of you would do the same? With Sara Palin at his side..we will have rational people who seriously want to cut the crap out of the political machine..(in which Barack is totally engulfed in..owes his power to all those celebrities who fund him and doesn't have a mind of his own).

    We must continue to fight the terrorism that controls the oil markets and focus on generating new technology and energy ourselves.
    The smart car may work fine in small cities..but consider all the huge semi's that we must travel with..we either have to have a truck only lane or find another avenue besides trucking because it seriously damages our roads and it would be insanely unsafe to be in a teeny tiny little car while these trucks on are on the same road. Safety is a factor that most people (people that want to live) must consider.
    That is why we are still buying suv's despite the prices..safety.
    So..while the smart car may work some places it doesn't work in rural america..
  • Rob September 05, 2008 19:23:18
    Rob

    No

    Too Little, Too Late.
    Time to switch to Fuel Cells
  • John September 05, 2008 01:54:44
    John

    Yes

    The Government already makes more on gas then the oil companies do!!
  • TechnoZeus August 30, 2008 07:00:45
    TechnoZeus

    No

    I know better than to think that I would actually see any of that savings... and if I needed psychological help as he thinks we all do, I sure wouldn't want it from him... but the fact is, my lack of sufficient work hours to keep my vehicle from running out of gas on my way to a day-labor assignment is not imaginary in my imagination. Our nation's psychological gas-price problem is in McCain's imagination... but the recession we're in is real, even if SOME people aren't effected by it and can't see that the rest of us are.
  • TexanIn... TechnoZeus September 05, 2008 19:49:39
    TexanInHawaii
    "...not imaginary in my imagination..."

    Hmm...
  • TechnoZeus TexanIn... September 06, 2008 03:32:52
    TechnoZeus
    Sorry... editing in bright sunlight sometimes doesn't work out too well. :)
  • -1 raves
    UrbanHillbilly August 29, 2008 20:43:16
    UrbanHillbilly

    No

    If you don't have gas taxes, you don't have roads. If you don't have roads, you don't need gas.
  • TexanIn... UrbanHi... September 05, 2008 19:50:05
    TexanInHawaii
    Problem solved! Thanks!
  • W.J.S. August 07, 2008 16:04:33
    W.J.S.

    No

    Its a JOKE!!
  • +2 raves
    Princess August 05, 2008 00:02:40
    Princess

    Yes

    It will be a relief. I could go to see my son and his family that live in another state. At least my car is in tune and in good condition and I do not have to check the tires to save energy as Barack Hussein advice. that is hope and change?
  • +5 raves
    foxy July 30, 2008 15:00:28
    foxy

    Yes

    IF WE GET BEHIND JOHN MCCAIN WE JUST MIGHT COME OUT OF THIS MESS THAT OUR COUNTRY IS IN.
  • Shiloh'... foxy October 24, 2008 00:08:08
    Shiloh's Angel-2012
    This is the honest to God truth! McCain/Palin are more qualified to be in the White House! Their my only choice, the right one!
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