Gas Tax Trial Balloon

potomactwostep.blogspot.com — The newspapers are suddenly full of hypothetical plans to sextuple the federal gasoline tax, with well-timed insinuations that this might be a postelection Republican ploy. On Oct. 8, the New York Times ran a story called, "Raise the Gas Tax? Funny, It Doesn't Sound Republican," citing a half-dozen Republican economists and a token Democrat. Nov 22, 2006 View in Crawl 4