IMF Proposes Additional Gasoline Tax

[esmith]

Well it appears that the IMF (International Monetary Fund) is suggesting that US drivers pay an additional tax on gasoline.

Top House Republican Pushes Back at IMF Gas Tax Study | Fox Business
IMF calls for higher gas taxes in the U.S. - Watertown Tea Party | Examiner.com

 

[Twilight Hue]

Do we pay a imf tax now? Or agreement for imf tax?

 

[Revoltingest]

I don't want to pay it to the IMF, but I favor a higher gas tax. It's a good
free market approach to encouraging fuel conservation & cleaning up the air.

 

[tytlyf]

I have no problem with additional taxes. The IMF is an organization we need to be a part of.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international organization that was initiated in 1944 at the Bretton Woods Conference and formally created in 1945 by 29 member countries. The IMF's stated goal was to stabilize exchange rates and assist the reconstruction of the world’s international payment system post-World War II. Countries contribute money to a pool through a quota system from which countries with payment imbalances can borrow funds temporarily. Through this activity and others such as surveillance of its members' economies and policies, the IMF works to improve the economies of its member countries.[1] The IMF describes itself as “an organization of 188 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world.”[2] The organization's stated objectives are to promote international economic cooperation, international trade, employment, and exchange rate stability, including by making financial resources available to member countries to meet balance of payments needs.[3] Its headquarters are in Washington, D.C., United States.

International Monetary Fund - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Twilight Hue]

Im not in favor. When ever has tax money gone to any body of goverment and exclusively is used for the stated purpose.

Till then. No more taxes.

 

[F0uad]

Yeah Americans give more money to corporate elites.

 

[Alceste]

Guys, the tax wouldn't be funding the IMF. The IMF is recommending a gas tax to help the US cover the costs of road maintenance and climate disturbances caused by CO2 emissions.

Feel free to try to make sense of this.
http://www.imf.org/external/np/pp/eng/2013/012813.pdf

 

[F0uad]

Guys, the tax wouldn't be funding the IMF. The IMF is recommending a gas tax to help the US cover the costs of road maintenance and climate disturbances caused by CO2 emissions.

Feel free to try to make sense of this.
http://www.imf.org/external/np/pp/eng/2013/012813.pdf

IMF helping? Do you honestly belief that.. Americans can help themselves they don't need corporations.

 

[uberrobonomicon4000]

IMF helping? Do you honestly belief that.. Americans can help themselves they don't need corporations.

You're right, we don't need help from other countries and shouldn't help other countries resolve their disputes and conflicts.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Yeah Americans give more money to corporate elites.

And the corporations give it back to the politicians. Back and forth forever.

 

[F0uad]

And the corporations give it back to the politicians. Back and forth forever.

Politicians don't give it to the people but the corporate interests also, why did they bail out the banks and corporations instead of the people? Americans are paying taxes to to private businesses that made the sh.... hole in the first place its funny.

 

[F0uad]

You're right, we don't need help from other countries and shouldn't help other countries resolve their disputes and conflicts.

Hmm let see.. the worst foreign policy of the world in the last 10 years.
Paying dictators and war-lords in Africa instead of the poor yeah doing a great job so far.

American's middle-class shrinking, high taxes, unemployment rising...
Yeah lets tax more and spend more, i mean why not we will just wait till China bails you guys out right?

 

[alacks hovel]

I have no problem with additional taxes. The IMF is an organization we need to be a part of. International Monetary Fund - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Seems like the IMF is a way to 'opening' developing countries up to neoliberal trade policies, aka. cheap labor and resources. It also requires a large overhaul to the country in question's financial structure in the face of a massive loan. No?

Then, when global economies crash, like in 2008, developing countries are hit the hardest, sometimes requiring them to refinance that loan. huge consequences.

Maybe not. I don't know **** about economics.

 

[alacks hovel]

You're right, we don't need help from other countries and shouldn't help other countries resolve their disputes and conflicts.

I feel like your argument couldn't be more reductive.

America wields are large amount of both soft and hard power; appearing to wane in light of BRICS, but deserving of no less scrutiny, if not MORE scrutiny. We need to start taking very seriously where we stand in the world's myriad regional disputes and express a great deal more of care in dispensing our moral whip (economic sanctions, no-fly zones, unmanned, extra-judicial assassinations)

To just withdraw completely from the global sphere is economic suicide. And it won't ever happen. It's like calls for the Southern states to secede. It's just a futile expression of a xenophobic, solipsistic political posture. It's not a position, it's a posture.