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WITH GAS AT $4 PER GALLON, FRANKEN RUNS AWAY FROM PAST SUPPORT FOR HIGHER GAS TAX
By Michael B. Brodkorb | July 1, 2008
According to changes on Team Franken’s website noticed by MPR, Al Franken has flip-flopped his position on increasing the federal gas tax. Franken previously stated that he would keep a potential raise in the federal gas tax “on the table.” Franken also strongly advocated raising the state gas tax:
“I don’t like gas taxes in general. I think they’re simply regressive taxes because people need to drive. But I think they should be used as a last resort. And I think certainly in this state we need to increase the gas tax. We haven’t had an increase in the gas tax in 20 years. And I’m in favor of at least a five to ten cent tax increase, and the fluctuation of gas prices is that everyday anyway. I don’t think people would notice it so much. But on the federal level I wouldn’t do it. But I’d keep it on the table.” Source: Al Franken, Twin West Chamber Debate, October 5, 2007
With gas at $4 per gallon, it’s clear that Team Franken is desperately trying to rewrite the long history of Franken’s support for higher gas taxes. It won’t work.
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July 1st, 2008 at 6:05 pm
What was the price of a gallon of gas on Oct. 5, 2007?
I’ll give you a hint: $2.75 http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/07/news/economy/gasprices/index.htm
By “keeping it on the table”, I assume he meant in case the price were to increase by another 68 percent over the coming year and a half.
Changing ones opinion in light of new information is not flip flopping. It is leadership.
If Republicans could figure this out, they would likely not be such an endangered species.
July 1st, 2008 at 6:48 pm
So in other words Franken is only interested in taxes that people don’t noitice? What a coward, it doesn’t matter how they take our money, if raising taxes is so right then they should be in your face about it.
July 1st, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Three words, Mike: HEALTH IMPACT FEE
July 1st, 2008 at 7:16 pm
He was for the gas taxes that would punish drivers before he was against them.
This is bullshit. Franken and his Democrat/Socialist/Fascist ilk love the current high price of energy. This is what their “policies” have delivered.
They’re only backing away from the political backlash. Franken is a spineless, hate-mongering asshole… Probably the biggest reason a fuck like Leroy loves him so much…
July 1st, 2008 at 7:18 pm
The only thing that pisses off Franken and like minded idiots is the fact that energy prices are this high without taxes. Those dumb sons of bitches wanted to be the ones to raise gas prices to $4.00+ per gallon.
July 1st, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Chestnut says proudly standing in the shadow of the states many closed bridges and clogged highways…
July 1st, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Remember that when you’re riding your next bus, Leroy. Think of the hundreds of millions wasted on buses and LRT.
July 1st, 2008 at 8:17 pm
I use buses and LRT.
Both are more convenient then guessing which bridges are now closed due to Tim Pawlenty’s obedience to David Strom, Phil Krinkie and Grover Norquist.
July 1st, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Thats fantastic Leroy, the Democrats answer to high prices is ….. high taxes!
Thats the CHANGE we can hope for.
July 1st, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Given that Democrat support for the gas tax changes with the price of gas, I look forward to Minnesota Democrats now opposing the gas tax they increased this session.
By the way, what jackass decided to have the gas tax be raised on Oct 1st, right before the elections?
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:26 am
bridges are now closed due to Tim Pawlenty’s obedience to David Strom, Phil Krinkie and Grover Norquistz
You’d think that even liberals would eventually be ashamed of themselves for lying like this. But we all know, these people have no conscience and will even stoop to using the death of people for their own political advantage.
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:46 am
With people like Elwyn Tinklenberg, former head of MN DOT, making political hay of the 35W bridge collapse soon after it fell, it makes sense that his political minions would follow suit.
Unfortunately it makes our Democrat friends here appear just as corrupt, immoral, and irresponsible as Elwyn Tinklenberg’s post 35W bridge collapse statements make him look. :-/
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:47 am
It was and is the Democrats elected to serve that have taken money from roads and bridges and diverted it to bike paths and transit. They still are and will continue to bankrupt all of us with lies lies lies!
July 2nd, 2008 at 8:51 am
To me, the flip-flop on a gas tax increase is important but it isn’t nearly as important as Franken’s unwillingness to increase oil exploration & production.
While Franken’s page on “gas prices” says that he isn’t “categorically opposed to off-shore drilling if it’s environmentally sustainable”, it’s obvious that he’s pandering about off-shore drilling being “environmentally sustainable.”
I wrote about this being a Democrat-manufactured crisis here.
Finally, it’s worth noting that there’s alot of talk on Franken’s website of socking it to ‘Big Oil’ but there’s next to nothing that he’d increase oil production. It says NOTHING about exploration of the Bakken field or the shale oil in the Mountain West.
July 2nd, 2008 at 9:04 am
Why is gas $2.50 per gallon in Mexico when they refine it here in the US and truck it back over the border?