{"id":12431,"date":"2008-05-05T14:38:27","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T21:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/05\/05\/gas-tax-holiday.html"},"modified":"2008-05-05T14:38:27","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T21:38:27","slug":"gas_tax_holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/05\/gas_tax_holiday.html","title":{"rendered":"Gas Tax Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s not just a gimmick — it’s a destructive <\/em>gimmick. Woo-hoo!<\/p>\n

The Federal gas tax is about 18 cents a gallon; given the way prices have skyrocketed, 18 cents is a drop in the bucket  — and given that it’s being suggested by two particiular presidential candidates<\/a> — who won’t be in a position to make it happen for nine months, by which time gas may well be even higher and the effect even a smaller <\/em>drop.<\/p>\n

It’s the “feel-good” silly suggestion of the season.<\/p>\n

Plus — it’s not like the federal gas tax is just crazy money that’s being burned in big bonfires beside the Potomac. It goes toward federal highway work <\/em>— maintaining \/ expanding \/ repairing roads, bridges, non-trivial stuff like that. So either any tax “holiday” will have to be short-lived, or else there won’t be any road for folks to be driving on …<\/p>\n

They’d be just as well off printing money and sending out more rebate checks.<\/p>\n

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(cartoon via BD<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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