You name the problem, Tom Friedman's got the answer: raise taxes on gasoline. Looks like Tom Brokaw's caught Friedman's gas-tax raising fever.
On today's Morning Joe, Brokaw proposed, as part of fighting the war on terror, raising gas taxes by five cents per gallon. Brokaw argued that it is wrong that the burden of fighting falls on just 1% of Americans, and that the result of his tax increase would be that "every time you go to the pump you have to think about what's going on elsewhere." For liberals, any event is a good excuse to do the thing they love best: raising taxes.
Note: key phrase in Brokaw's proposal: "I would start with" a five cent gas tax. You know that once the tax-raising liberals get their foot in the door . . .
TOM BROKAW: Everybody's saying oh, we got to send more troops. That's 1% of our population. 1%. I've said it here before: I think it's immoral for a democracy to send 1% of its population in a uniform --
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Over and over again.
BROKAW: -- into harm's way over and over again. So I would start with a five cent gasoline tax. So every time you go to the pump you have to think about what's going on elsewhere. We're going to have to finance this. It's going to be very expensive at the same time. And it is long curve.
