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Poor Andrew Sullivan

[Updates below.]

He's gone bonkers and he doesn't seem to know it.

WHY NOT A GAS TAX? Just when you think this campaign couldn't get more depressing, you have this moronic exchange on gas prices. They're Bush's fault; they'd be worse under Kerry. Etc. Now I know I just came out as a non-driver, and so full disclosure is unnecessary. But the low taxes on gas in this country surely are a bad idea. Here's an easy way to help ease the budget deficit, increase our fuel efficiency, wean us a little off Middle East petroleum and generally help the U.S. economically and in foreign policy. Yet the very idea of raising taxes on gasoline is regarded as so completely anathema you might as well propose nominating Osama bin Laden for president.

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...this irrational embrace of cheap gas is about as close to a national consensus as you'll ever get in this polarized country.


He thinks "low taxes on gas" are a "bad idea."

Egads.

UPDATED 9/28/2005 10:04am
Andrew Sullivan Needs Slaves

Posted by drizzten on April 1, 2004 11:13 AM |

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When ostensibly libertarian thinkers start advocating weird things, it tends to disturb me more than when anyone with a more authoritarian bent does. Maybe it's just the inconsistency.

Posted by: Erik | April 1, 2004 09:13 PM

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