President Barack Obama released his 2017 Fiscal Year Budget to Congress. Here is what Heritage Foundation researchers had to say about the president’s budget:
Energy
Education
Health Care
Regulation and Spending
Defense
Energy
Obama’s ‘Oil Fee’ is a Regressive Gas Tax
President Obama’s budget calls for a $10-per-barrel tax on oil, to pay for mass transit, high-speed rail, self-driving cars, and other infrastructure projects he believes will reduce America’s carbon footprint.
Make no mistake, this is a 22 cent per gallon gas tax, a diesel tax, a home heating oil tax, a jet fuel tax, and a plastic tax (petroleum liquids), among other things. The costs will be …read more
Source: The Daily Signal
