Brokaw Goes Tom Friedman: Raise Gas Taxes to Fight Terror

MarkF | November 25, 2015
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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.

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