DNC Convention Committee Is Using The City’s Gas Pumps To Fill Up On Fuel, Avoiding State and Federal Highway Taxes….RNC Is Getting Their Gas At The Pump
The Rocky Mountain News reports:
The committee hosting the Democratic National Convention is using the city’s gas pumps to fill up on fuel, avoiding state and federal highway taxes, officials said today.
“There’s something there that just doesn’t seem right to me because, in a sense, you’re saying then that the officials who pass the laws are not willing to live by them, and that concerns me,” Councilwoman Jeanne Faatz said.
The issue came up during the council’s weekly meeting with Mayor John Hickenlooper when the Public Works Department requested authorization to be reimbursed by the Denver 2008 Convention Host Committee for use of “fueling facilities, fuel and car washes.”
“By doing it this way, by running it through our Fleet Maintenance, that means that that fuel does not pay state or federal highway taxes,” Faatz said.
Obama called McCain’s gas-tax holiday proposal “a gimmick” back in April. “Don’t tell me words don’t matter. Just words?”
Ah, but they’re doing it too, or are they?
“My understanding is in Washington or wherever where this happens on a regular basis, that it’s standard operating procedure. I do know for a fact that they’re doing the same exact thing in Minneapolis,” which is hosting the Republican National Convention, the mayor said.
“Hummmmm,” Faatz said.
Hummmmm is right.
Teresa McFarland, a spokeswoman for the Minneapolis-St. Paul host committee, said they’re getting their gas at the pump.
“We’re not getting a tax break on fuel,” she said. “That’s not the set-up at this end.”
After the meeting, Faatz said it was wrong for the DNC host committee to get a tax break.
“I am just troubled by not having the payment of taxes for what I consider to be a privately funded party, and that’s what the host committee is: it’s a private organization,” she said.
“The DNC is not government. The RNC is not government,” said Faatz, who, at the time, had been told that the “same exact thing” was happening in Minneapolis-St. Paul. “They are political parties and they are putting on a huge party, and that is not providing services to each and every citizen each day.”
Taxes for ye, but not for me!
July 22, 2008 - 05:26 PM on July 22nd, 2008
More arch-hypocrisy by the Democrite elitist oligarchists. What vermin, what filthy degenerate scum!
I said before if you vote for Obama, you are a moron. I think now if you vote Democrat, you are a moron.
July 23, 2008 - 11:48 PM on July 23rd, 2008
Oh, they failed to mention that the Dems are now wanting to RAISE gas taxes again. Not to fund highways but to fund transportation projects to include mass transit. Exactly WHY should the people who are NOT using mass transit PAY for mass transit? I drive for a living. You can’t deliver packages on mass transit. For that matter, I want to see some of these idiots have to ride a bus or the new light rail in Phoenix in the summer. We’ve been over 100 degrees almost every day for the last 6 weeks. Try taking groceries home on a bus or train for 45 minutes when it’s that hot out.