Reply #21: That is NOT the point [View All]

[Inuca]

This idea has been floating around the democratic side of COngress for a while know AKAIK. The point is that Clinotn claims that the windfall tax makes her proposal different from McCain's because she says this money will be used instead of the gas tax. The problems with her claim are twofold: 1. the windfall profits tax will NOT PASS, at least in the Senate until we hopefully get more dems next year; and 2. it seems (sorry, no link, heard it on TV) she also wants to use the same $s obtained from the oil companies to fund research into new energy sources, sorry, can't do BOTH. As usual, she is pandering, and hoping that people do not notice.