[Editorial]
With the price of gas going through the roof—thanks to Trump’s war and the shutting down of the straits—the Republicans are using high gas prices as an excuse to cut gas taxes.
What a great idea!
But not so fast… cuts in the gas tax mean cuts elsewhere! The devil is in the details: where do they want to cut? Why, it’s their favorite… social services!
So they want to help the middle class keep driving their gas guzzlers by cutting funding. Where are they going to cut so that their constituents can drive around in their Tahoes and Escalades?
The car I drive is a Prius Plug-in. For this tank of gas, I am getting 125 mpg! I have around 97,000 miles on the car… it says I am averaging 82.1 mpg! Compare that to Tahoes (~16–18 mpg), Escalades (~16–17 mpg), and Ford F-150s or Chevy Silverados (around 18–25 mpg). I am a survivor of the 1973 Oil Crisis, and I remember “Even–Odd!” “I Can’t Drive 55!”
What was done back then was targeted to spread the pain over everyone, while today it is targeted at lower-income families and those just scraping by. The political parties worked together to solve the crisis instead of trying to stab the Democrats in the back in a “gotcha” maneuver.
Back then, it was the Yom Kippur War that caused the crisis. Now we can thank Trump for all of this! You would think that with all the bright generals Hesith replaced the others with—his hand-picked generals—and all the military analysis that DOGE fired, someone in Trump’s cabinet would have asked the obvious question: “What happens when the Strait of Hormuz is blocked?” You think someone would have asked, “What happens when we stop the flow of oil?”
So the Connecticut Republicans chose to help the rich and screw the rest of us by cutting social services. And remember... "It's the Economy Stupid!"
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