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The epitaph for the so-called gas tax holiday might well be that politicians frequently underestimate the intelligence of the voters they hope to woo.
Raised in April by presidential hopefuls Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, as gas was surging toward $4 a gallon and higher, the proposal to eliminate the 18.4 cent per gallon federal tax from Memorial Day to Labor Day seemed an obvious winner.
Gas Tax Holiday Never Got Off the Ground - FOXBusiness.com (http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/gas-tax-holiday-got-ground/ - broken link)
The epitaph for the so-called gas tax holiday might well be that politicians frequently underestimate the intelligence of the voters they hope to woo.
Raised in April by presidential hopefuls Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, as gas was surging toward $4 a gallon and higher, the proposal to eliminate the 18.4 cent per gallon federal tax from Memorial Day to Labor Day seemed an obvious winner.
Gas Tax Holiday Never Got Off the Ground - FOXBusiness.com (http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/gas-tax-holiday-got-ground/ - broken link)
Both Senators could still have proposed it in Congress, maybe they weren't serious?
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