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Think Clinton's plan to suspend the gas tax temporarily is a bad idea? A similar measure in Illinois -- which Obama backed -- seems to have helped consumers.
  • He's wrong all right

    Do you not find it striking that the GOP Congress which never saw a tax cut it didn't like isn't jumping on the tax free holiday barn wagon? Why the news media suddenly overnight began to care about the opinion of economists? Why helping taxpayers who are putting $70 in their gas tank every fill up is suddenly outrageous? Why Mr. Obama is so vociferous against it? I couldn't figure it out until this morning watching television. The gas tax holiday requires some minimal oversight of the oil industry to be effective. President Obama who already is very cozy with the nuclear energy industry is going to be make George W. Bush look like a card carrying member of the Sierra Club, mark my words.