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.

  • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    12 days ago

    Lol, great plan donvict. The companies will just keep the cents to themselves while depriving funds for infrastructure

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      12 days ago

      Their goal is to bankrupt the government, and sell it off to the United Corporations of America.

      They already own it. Might as well name it after themselves.

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      Yeah doubt the price of gas will go down. The station will just pocket now they new profit that used to be a tax. So smart /s

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      Yeah man people still think the president controls gas prices and this moron is also the president. The only thing he can do is make the prices worse in the long run