Oppose the gas tax holiday your own dag-gone-self

Krugman's words of caution:

Economists really do know something about tax incidence that the laity don’t. So when a presidential candidate says something that conflicts with economistic wisdom, it becomes THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE EVER. Except, you know, it isn’t.

That's my point exactly, it's no big deal but the CANDIDATES ARE MAKING IT OUT TO BE.

In spite of all that, I'm headlong into a gas tax holiday monomania. Do-it-yourself at http://gastax08.blogspot.com:

ANY ECONOMIST INTERESTED IN ADDING THEIR NAME TO THIS STATEMENT PLEASE EMAIL gastax08@gmail.com WITH NAME AND AFFILIATION

I did it myself and hopefully I'll be added to the list very soon.

Comments

[joshua corning]

That's my point exactly, it's no big deal but the CANDIDATES are making it out to be.

Well...technically I would know very little about the tax cut if one particular economist did not write so much about it on his blog.