New Idea: Let’s Raise Taxes

Representative Peter Welch (Democrat, Vermont and, by the way, my representative) has announced that he is in favor of raising the tax on gasoline. He has a safe seat and, anyway, in Vermont it isn’t politically dangerous to propose a tax increase, especially if it can be somehow made into a positive for jobs and infrastructure and a negative for automobiles and oil companies. Vermont is eagerly anticipating the arrival of cars that are powered by wind.

Meanwhile, there are people who must drive. For whom gasoline is not a discretionary item on the budget. They will have to cut back on organic arugula.