Trump wants to do it. Why not the NCGOP in the NCGA?

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President Trump is pushing the idea of a temporary suspension of the federal gas tax to provide some consumer relief during this tough time.  (Anyone seen gas prices lately ???). Of course, the Marxist media hates the idea of sacrificing any potential government money to the “little people.”

‘It’s not enough to make a difference to people,” they sniff at us, while holding a glass of chablis with one pinkie in the air.

Let’s give you the lede they are trying so hard to bury.   The current federal gas tax is 18.4 cents per gallon.

Now, let’s look at the state tax that gets added to that.  North Carolina has the ELEVENTH HIGHEST gas tax rate in the nation. That’s right. 

North Carolina’s gas tax currently sits at 40.55 cents per gallon.  (Add the fed tax on top of that, and you find yourself paying almost 59 cents per gallon in taxes per every fill-up.)

We have the highest gas tax in the Old South.  Unless you want to count Virginia (now at 9th highest in the nation) which has pretty much been conquered by the Yankee hordes. And they’re just barely higher than us.

For the last few years, we’ve been hearing about this mystical, wonderful “surplus” in Raleigh.  To me, that means they have more money than they need to cover the state’s obligations.   WHY NOT follow Trump’s lead and give us –at least — a six month suspension on the state gas tax? 

Those who suggest an alleged insignificance of a tax suspension fail to consider the wide-ranging impact the cost of fuel has on our economy.  Costs go up for businesses that have fleets of vehicles.  It’s more expensive to transport food from the farm to the grocery store.  It’s more expensive to ship raw materials to factories for manufacturing.  It’s also more expensive to ship that package you ordered from Amazon to your house.  Yessirree, the cost of fuel ricochets off almost every significant aspect of our lives and our economy.  

A gas tax suspension could and should trigger price drops throughout the economy — giving many of us some much-needed breathing room on this cost-of-living thing. 

You have to take a Brinks truck with you to every visit to the gas station or grocery store. For once, stop putting your well-paying lobbyist friends FIRST.  People are hurting out here.

(Wow.  I need to be careful talking about free market economics. I might trigger that “helicopter” mom in Greensboro.)