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The Dumb Gas Tax Moratorium Debate Continues
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We deserve what we get, I suppose. The campaigns for the highest office in the land, the presidency, have been reduced to discussions about the merits of a (less than likely) 25 or 30 buck saving this summer. McCain and Clinton are for it. Obama opposes it.
It's so obvious pandering it makes the Clintonista's insistence it be this week's front and center campaign issue mind boggling. Apart from the fact that there's absolutely no way it could be implemented by this summer, it's just dumb policy.
To his credit, at least John McCain admits it makes no sense and he proposes it only to give us all a little psychological bump. And, after all, isn't our psychological well-being the primary factor in economic policy? (just kidding).
Even ABC News, in a rare showing of objective analysis, calls the gas tax moratorium proposal a sham:
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