I knew that Donald John Trump had proposed a gas tax holiday from federal fuel taxes to try to ameliorate his continued shooting of himself and Merikkka in the foot over the Iran war.
I somehow missed that Teenybopper Talarico had also proposed that, and way back on April 21, which is before Trump did, IIRC. The Observer has the details, along with at least a mild call-out of TT.
Per that callout, what if the federal gas tax isn't restored in, say three months? Second, even three months, even if it comes back, and is indeed only like scrounging for quarters in a junk drawer, causes problems. Third, doesn't this just encourage national Rethuglicans to not really care about federal deficits until they're not in power? Fourth, doesn't this ignore that, in a non-punitive way, we do need some sort of federal, and state, road use tax for EVs? Fifth, speaking of EVs, doesn't it ignore something else?
Here's pundit Mark Jones:
“Especially here in Texas, they would prefer not to raise the climate issue, because that just opens the door to Republican accusations that Democrats are bad for the oil and natural gas industry,” said Mark Jones, a professor of political science at Rice University. “We’re increasingly seeing Democratic politicians fight fire with fire by engaging in populist rhetoric similar to that of Donald Trump, even if from a policy perspective it’s irresponsible.”
Amen.
The piece also notes that Dementia Joe, er, Uki-Tankie Joe, proposed a holiday in 2022.
As an independent non-duopoly leftist, it's another reason not to trust Talarico, who talks about ending the Iran war while still not having a clear and unambiguous statement about the genocide in Gaza.
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