From: gl4317@yahoo.com   
      
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    "conklin"  wrote:   
      
   >  wrote in message   
   > news:36d72704-6f49-4f96-a96b-d7939977f2c8@googlegroups.com...   
   > > On Sunday, July 20, 2014 11:58:03 PM UTC-4, Glen Labah wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> It's rather hard to take anything on an Americans for Prosperity web   
   > >> site seriously.  It's a mouthpiece basically for the Koch Brothers.   
   > >   
   > >   
   > > Just a quick glimpse at their website shows all sorts of distortions about   
   > > the investment costs in transit, Amtrak, highways and airways.   
   > >   
   > > They jumped onto the "free wine" bandwagon of complaints about Amtrak food   
   > > service.   
   > >   
   > > Bottom line:  my property taxes go up to pay for more highways.   
   >   
   > The gas tax needs to go up, not your property taxes.   
      
   That's just it though.  The Koch Brothers do not want to see gas taxes   
   put back where they were, as this whole series of web pages they put   
   together opposes a new transportation bill.  They just use unrelated   
   Amtrak anecdotes to try to accomplish that (because Amtrak is not funded   
   by the transportation bill they are so opposed to).   
      
     One of their significant investments is in oil.  You would think that   
   they would have enough sense to realize that investments in highways via   
   the gas tax would ultimately benefit their industry.  Apparently they   
   just look at it as a price increase that decreases (hah!) demand.   
      
   If you can find some other reason why the Koch Brothers behave as they   
   do, I would love to hear it.   
      
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