Everyone needs gas and people won't go without it. There are some positives to increasing the tax on gasoline. According to Business Insider, increasing the tax on gasoline will lower oil demand and that will preserve our reserves (Rapier, www.businessinsider.com, 2018). We can save what we still have by increasing the tax and that will make people buy less of gasoline plus it will cut down on air pollution.
Increasing the tax on gasoline is a bad idea and can hurt some people. If we raise it then people that need the gas but can't afford it if it is increased can't get gas then. According to Americans Tax Reform, if we increase the tax on gasoline, it will hurt the middle-income Americans the most (Boone, www.atr.org, 2015). People will spend so much just on the increased tax that if they didn't then they could be doing something else with the money like eating out or doing some sort of activities.
I believe that we should not increase the tax on gas. It will make people go poor because gas will be expensive and people still need it to get around. Tax fairness is that people that are middle class will start to struggle to pay for gas but the rich people will be fine. Overall, we shouldn't increase our tax on gas and keep it the same because right now it is affordable for most Americans.
It might cause people to go poor. But don't you think more people would stop driving and maybe take public transportation. It could help with the excessive amount of pollution we are putting out.
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