Pinkerton: Joke of the Day: ‘Vulnerable’ Senate Dems Propose Cutting Gas TaxJames P. Pinkerton 19 Feb 2022
Here’s an actual headline good for some laughs: “Vulnerable Senate Dems try to run as tax-cutters.” That howler of a header appeared this week in Politico.
As the publication explained, four Democratic senators all up for re-election in 2022— Mark Kelly of Arizona, Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, and Raphael Warnock of Georgia—are now in favor of suspending the federal gasoline tax, which is 18.4 cents a gallon.
Politico added slyly, “It’s no coincidence that the Democrats most involved in the new push hail from the toughest battlegrounds.” And the article further added that in light of the failure of big-ticket legislative items such as Build Back Better, Democrats are “racing to cobble together an agenda that convinces voters that the party is responding to their biggest concern: rising costs.”
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https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2022/02/19/pinkerton-joke-of-the-day-vulnerable-senate-dems-propose-cutting-gas-tax/
