not half a million, not $0.12. we lost $800 billion a year on trade. not going to happen. newspaper reported that some democrats in key rust belt states important in 2018 and 2020 are worried their leaders do not realize how potent this issue is politically with the forgotten workers the president appealed to in 2016. one of those key rust belt states of course pennsylvania where there is a special election for a house seat later this month. in a debate this weekend, republican and democrat battling to see who was more in tune with the president. many of our competitors around the world have slanted the playing field. their thumb has been on the scale and i think president trump is trying to even it out. china has been making cheap steel and flooding the market. it s not fair and it s not right. i think is long overdue.
people have to understand our country on trade has been ripped off by virtually every country in the world. whether it s friend or enemy, everybody. china, russia, people that we think are wonderful, the european union. we can t do business, they don t allow it, they have trade barriers that are worse than tariffs. far worse than tariffs, they have trade barriers. if they want to do something we will tax their cars they send in here like water. we may have friends but remember this, we lost over the last number of years $800 billion a year. not half a million dollars, not $0.12. $800 billion a year on trade. not going to happen, we ve got to get it back. the biggest problem is china. we lost $500 billion.
$0.25, the gas tax was 18.4. scented was last raised in 1993 we have had 167% inflation.s, if we raise it by $0.12 it would be keeping it up with inflation. a lot of gas tax is wasted, let s forget about all the deadbeats on welfare. they take some of that money from mass transit in new york or washington whenever you do that all they do a is increase s increased civil service salarie salaries. tucker: i m with the one all of that stuff but for some reason the chamber ofmb congress pushing that gas tax stuff. one of the biggest companies in the world whose owner s jeff bezos, do you know what they paid in federal tax? nothingng. according to reports, the institute on taxation and economic policy, amazon paid nothing. that s their business is using
success and he was rated as one of the most consistent supporters. within two years following the republican revolution. the entire cost of that senate race was under $4 million. just for good measure to give you a sense of then and now, the average price of a gallon of gas and election day 1992 which was november 3rd was $1.12. the number one single on billboard that week was end of the road by boys to men, top grossing film of the box office was under siege stirring stephen sokol. that last factoid should signal
sudan, and syria. here s what some of our affiliates are covering. fox 31, the suspect in the shooting of three people at a walmart is in custody 14 hours after he ran from the store. police credit surveillance video and a tip from the public. police say the shooting appears to have been random. fox 4 in dallas. the future of confederate statues in that city remains up in the air. dallas city council planned to make a decision this week but now plans to study options. live look at san diego from fox 5. the big story there, drivers across california are protesting the states increased in the gas tax by $0.12 per gallon. drivers pay almost $0.42 in just taxes per gallon of gas. electric vehicles aren t out of the woods. they are required to pay $100 annual fees in coming years.