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Yeah that’s a gas tax. In 2010, America consumed 138,496,176,000 gallons of gas. If a $1/gallon failed utterly to reduce our gasoline use, it would at least raise something like $138.496176 billion every year.
Archive for the ‘Conservatism’ Category
April 15th, 2011
April 10th, 2011
Category: Conservatism, Health Care
The lack of professionalism in Path to Prosperity won’t matter much, politically. Still, it’s a pretty depressing signal about the quality of policy thinking that underlays Representative Ryan’s widely-praised proposals.
April 6th, 2011
Category: Conservatism, Medicaid
Paul Ryan’s proposals seem politically self-immolating. I’m not complaining. I’m just puzzled.
March 4th, 2011
Category: Conservatism, Don't ask, don't tell
The Weekly Standard: hurrah for ROTC, please don’t mention DADT.
February 15th, 2011
Category: Conservatism, Religion and Politics, Republican Party, Spirituality and Religion, Watching Conservatives
Want to know what those terrible men of Sodom were doing? Really?
January 1st, 2011
Congratulations to Peter Bottomley, MP, who has just been knighted. Sir Peter has had a distinguished career in politics and is also the source of one of my favorite policy stories (context here), which I reprint here as a small tribute: When he was in the Thatcher government, he was at one point given responsibility [...]
November 12th, 2010
Category: Conservatism, Defense and national security, Economics, Financial crises, Foreign Policy, Republican Party
The double legacyof Bush Republicanism ain hastening American decline.
November 8th, 2010
The Third Way’s Jon(athan) Cowan: self-proclaimed leader, still seeking followers.
October 5th, 2010
Obion County, Tennessee is a rural patch with eight towns in it, each of which has a fire department supported by local taxes. If you live in one of these towns, and your house catches fire, your neighbors put out the fire through the agency of the fire department. Some people prefer to live out [...]