Wednesday, April 16th, 2008...8:22 am
File That Under “Campaign Stunt”
Wow, John McCain has this innovative proposal for a “gas tax holiday.” Yeah, he understands economics (and, as the son of an admiral and husband of an heiress, he certainly understands the plight of the working man more than that Barack Obama).
John, you let those lefty yahoos go on about how the gas tax represents a tiny portion of the price at the pump compared to the doubling of the price in recent years. And hey, who cares that we will have even less money to pay for infrastructure? Learn from your man, George Bush: don’t let the facts get in the way of phony populism.
The only thing that I regret is that it doesn’t seem like any one has put the proposal forward in the congress. Does McCain know anyone in the Senate that can propose such a thing?
5 Comments
April 16th, 2008 at 11:30 am
You’re right about this being a ridiculous stunt, but I’m pretty McCain doesn’t know anyone in the Senate who could propose such a change. Revenue bills must originate in the House.
April 16th, 2008 at 11:33 am
I don’t remember where I read this first, but anyway…
Under Reagain, the federal deficit went from $1 trillion to $2 trillion.
Under Bush I, it went up to $3-4 trillion….
Under Clinton, that wild libruhl spender, the federal deficit actually WENT DOWN….
And then along came Bush W, and the deficit is now…what? $6 Trillion and counting.
So tell me again why the Republicans are the party of fiscal responsibility, and you can’t trust the Dimocrats to spend your tax money wisely???????
April 16th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Good point, I didn’t even think of that. Of course, revenue bills don’t originate with a president either…
April 16th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
I read his entire speech. He wants to do a full review of all federal spending and the programs. Someone else did that: Al Gore under orders from Bill Clinton.
He also only wants to freeze spending on anything not DoD related. DoD is the biggest item in the budget followed by the Global War on Terror ™ In one adds up all the discretionary spending that is not Defense related, one comes to slightly more than the entire Pentagon budget. How would that solve anything?
April 21st, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Just a little aside to your post (and only because I think we liberal Democrats value accuracy), McCain cannot introduce the bill in the Senate. Constitutionally, all tax bills must originate in the House of Representatives (unless the bill has already been introduced in the House). And yes, I am a nerd with nothing better to do at the moment…
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