Gas prices

The Antelope Valley Press story “Lackey joins [new proposal] to suspend gas tax” stated, “Previous proposals were criticized for allowing oil companies to pocket tax savings without guaranteeing lower gas prices...” But Lackey didn’t say the “new” proposal demands that oil capitalists guarantee lower prices, only that [he and his co-sponsors] are “work[ing] toward suspending the gas tax.”

Given that it takes approximately thirty days for newly extracted crude oil to be used in the form of gasoline, and since gasoline prices began to rise the moment the war in Ukraine started, oil capitalists don’t intend to lower their prices. Since the goal of capitalists is to amass as much profit as possible, they couldn’t care less about consumers.

None of that is lost on Lackey and his equally pro-capitalist co-sponsors, but they’re hoping it (is) lost on you, the worker/consumer/voter. Lackey is only concerned with depriving the state government of money, hoping it becomes dysfunctional.

You see, Tom Lackey is a signatory to the “No Tax” Pledge as put forth by Grover Norquist, who once stated that the pledge intends to “...cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.”

Like Norquist and all other political reactionaries, Lackey endeavors to destroy the government, or at least the portion of it that benefits workers.

That’s why no version of this dangerous scheme to suspend California’s gas tax will ever include a requirement that oil capitalists reduce the cost of their deadly product. Never would Lackey nor any other capitalist politician do anything that would incur the wrath of the capitalist class.

And let’s not forget that