Amazingly, no matter how many economists, editorials and even former Clinton advisors come out against this wondrously panderous gas tax holiday - there are those who are simply taking it at face value and saying, "So what? I don't trust all those "elitists" who don't understand me telling me about their long-term plans. Hillary is just trying to help us out a little."
The key here is that, of course, even if the policy somehow get miraculously passed, due to many forces, global in nature, beyond our control, that $28 will go right back into the oil companies before the Summer is over. This is what makes the proposal of this tax condescending (and truly elitist) to those it claims to help the most.
I know I am sending this out to the choir and Indiana is tomorrow - but, perhaps beyond the strategic reasoning of why this plan is pure pandering, we need to focus on the fact that this is not even true tax relief to begin with. If anything - it is anti-tax relief in the worst way: pretending to be but not. In other words - a lie.
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