Gas prices shouldn't surprise us
WASHINGTON -- If you thought the Dubai port deal marked a record high in Washington cynicism, think again. Nothing can match the spectacle of politicians scrambling for cover during a spike in gasoline prices. And this time, the panderfest has gone all the way to the Oval Office. President Bush has joined the braying congressional hordes by ordering the Energy and Justice Departments and the FTC to launch an investigation into possible gasoline price-fixing.
What a disgrace.
Krauthammer is a big supporter of gasoline taxes... He believes that high gas taxes will encourage conservation. Personally, they should abolish the federal gas tax because the feds are done with the road building business. When the first gas tax was passed, it was supposed to be temporary... It was supposed to be phased out when the interstate highway system was finished. The deal was the feds would build it and the states would be in charge of the upkeep. Well, the interstate highway system has been finished for a while, and yet, the feds are still paying.Charles Krauthammer
posted by Andy W. Rogers | 12:04 AM
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Ann Coulter does her usual stiletto routine on all the blustering pols who want to pretend that they care about what their constituents are paying for fuel these days - - - -even though they are on the record in favor of "sticking it" to these same constituents via hikes in fuel taxes. Meanwhile, of course, they won't go anywhere except in gas-guzzling SUV's and private Gulfstream jets. An excerpt:
http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/welcome.cgi
IT'S HARD OUT HERE FOR A PUMP
April 26, 2006
I would be more interested in what the Democrats had to say about high gas prices if these were not the same people who refused to let us drill for oil in Alaska, imposed massive restrictions on building new refineries, and who shut down the development of nuclear power in this country decades ago.
But it's too much having to watch Democrats wail about the awful calamity to poor working families of having to pay high gas prices.
Imposing punitive taxation on gasoline to force people to ride bicycles has been one of the left's main policy goals for years.
For decades Democrats have been trying to raise the price of gasoline so that the working class will stop their infernal car-driving and start riding on buses where they belong, while liberals ride in Gulfstream jets.
The last time the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the presidency was in 1993. Immediately after trying to put gays in the military and socialize all health care, Clinton's next order of business was to propose an energy tax on all fuels, including a 26-cent tax on gas. I think the bill was called "putting people first in line at the bus station."
Al Gore defended the gas tax, vowing that it was "absolutely not coming out" of the energy bill regardless of "how much trouble it causes the entire package." The important thing was to force Americans to stop their infernal car-driving, no matter how much it cost.
And mind you, this was before we knew Gore was clinically insane. Back then we thought he was just a double-talking stuffed shirt who seemed kind of gay.
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