Federal gas tax 'holiday' is empty populist rhetoric
Friday May 9, 2008
There's no good reason to suspend the federal gasoline tax this summer. But Illinois' sales tax on gasoline? That's a different story.
One of the worst public policy ideas being discussed these days, although one not likely to be approved by Congress, is to take a "holiday" from the 18.4-cent per gallon federal gasoline tax.
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