Gas tax

The online coverage of the McCain/Clinton proposal to eliminate gas tax for the Summer months reminds me of the enjoyment I get out of reading really negative movie reviews.  It’s just a landslide of coverage about how much of a pandering gimmick the idea is and how terrible it is environmentally and economically.  I especially liked Sam Stein’s article in which he tried to find an economist who liked the idea (including libertarians, free market economists, transportation workers unions, etc). Spoiler: He doesn’t find any.