Planning a private party? If you are politically connected the city will exempt you from gas taxes and wash your car!

"I am just troubled by not having the payment of taxes for what I consider to be a privately funded party, and that's what the host committee is: it's a private organization," she said.

"The DNC is not government. The RNC is not government," Faatz added. "They are political parties and they are putting on a huge party, and that is not providing services to each and every citizen each day."

In Colorado, consumers pay 40.4 cents in taxes on every gallon of gasoline. That includes the federal gasoline tax of 18.4 cents per gallon and the Colorado gasoline tax of 22 cents per gallon.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jul/22/city-gives-dnc-host-committee-pass-gas-tax/

This is just a disgusting double standard. I would say more, but I don’t want to get into trouble for all of the insults I want to direct at these bureaucratic leeches. They are not special and should not be able to avoid the laws they helped create!