Rep. Patrick Bauer is a complete incompetent

State Representative Patrick Bauer has challenged Gov. Mitch Daniels to remove the state sales tax on gasoline. This makes no public policy sense, and its only value is to fool citizens to support Democrats.   Those who fall for this deserve what they get: increased taxes in other areas and less service.  This is such a cynical political ploy that it makes Bauer nothing more than a lackey for his big fat ass to get a bigger chair if the Democrats win the House (or maybe he is looking for a place with less wind for his cheap hair piece).

With people like that representing us we do not need enemies.  It is time for South Bend to start looking at brains instead of hair-do as a criteria for voting someone into office.  It is bad enough the morons we elect in NWI, why does South Bend have to add to our problems.  They are suppose to be smarter than that.  What is their excuse?

The Indiana sales tax on gasoline is 6 percent, or about 14-20 cents per gallon, depending on if it is calculated net or gross.  Anyway, every study has shown that removing this tax will make negligible difference to an Indiana resident’s lifestyle, but it will remove more than $160 million yearly from the state’s coffers.  In addition, this tax removal will primarily favor the more wealthy, who drive larger cars, and the corporations, who operate car and truck fleets and have expense accounts.  What a great Democrat Bauer is?  As a working man, I sure am glad he is in my corner.  (I am being sarcastic).

Who pays most of the $160 million dollars being added to the state’s funds to support Hoosier education, state police, road building, etc.?   Illinois residents who come to Indiana, especially NWI, to get gasoline, and trucking companies and tourists who travel the crossroads of America, filling their cars with gas and leaving their money behind.

Such policy proposal is why Bauer has made no positive contribution to the welfare of Indiana residents.  In all the years he has been in the Indiana House of Representatives, especially when he was in positions of power, his sole contribution has been impediment. He has stood in the way of every advancement Indiana could make.  It is doubly sad that most NWI legislators have followed what Bauer has proposed.  If he were only to hurt the people he represents in South Bend, that would be their problem.However, this proposal would hurt all Hoosiers.

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[Sir Hailstone]

Incompetent does not even begin to describe Pat Bauer. Now he wants to move BMV to the Secretary of State's office. We all know how well the Illinois SoS operates, that is when they aren't selling drivers licenses out the back door for political contributions.

Dumbest idea yet. And Pat Bauer needs to lose the muskrat. I would say he needs to lose his seat in the House but it appears the folks in South Bend aren't embarrassed by him as the rest of us are.