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Originally Posted by Fuzz
But why stop the gas tax pause in 6 mnoths or a year? If it is to help with inflation, then it doesn't make sense to cancel it, because the inflation is already baked in. You haven't explained why the 6 month policy makes any sense, because prices aren't going to drop, and if the government isn't raising public sector wages with inflation level increases, they are admitting wages aren't going to rise to close the gap. The policy makes on logical sense(other than a vote buy). I'm not sure how you don't understand that.
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I think the point of these temporary measures is to help with the volatility and significant rise in a shorter period that we've seen. I do think it's temporary though and we probably saw the peak last summer.
But one other point here...it's not my policy and I'm not really too interested in defending it as being amazing. I don't have to explain this for them. Personally, I'm on the 100% consumption tax and zero income tax train, which this is the exact opposite.