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May 3, 2008
Clinton, McCain & Obama Gas Tax Roundup
- Angry Bear:
- Associated Press:
- Obama Attacks Clinton's Gas Tax Plan, by David Espo & Beth Fouhy
- Obama Says Clinton, McCain Are Wrong on Gas-Tax Plan
- Bloomberg:
- Clinton Caught in Time Warp With Windfall Oil Tax, by Amity Shlaes
- Clinton, McCain Push Gas Tax Break Economists Panned, by Alison Fitzgerald
- Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research:
- Studying the Effects of Gas Tax Moratorium, by Joseph J. Doyle, Jr. & Krislert Samphantharak
- Citizens for Tax Justice:
- The Hill:
- Environmental Group Backs Obama Over Gas Tax Stance, by J. Taylor Rushing
- L.A. Times:
- Critics Denounce Gas Tax "Holiday" Backed by Clinton and McCain, by Michael Finnegan
- Mauled Again:
- Greg Mankiw's Blog:
- New York Daily News:
- Obama & Clinton Pumped Up on Gas Tax, by Michael Saul
- New York Observer: Bloomberg: Clinton-McCain Gas Tax Break Is the "'Dumbest" Thing, by Azi Paybarah
- New York Times:
- Democrats Divided Over Gas Tax Break, by John M. Broder
- The Gas-Guzzler Gambit (editorial)
- Unlikely Allies Campaign for a Gas-Tax Holiday, by Julie Bosman
- NPR:
- Reuters:
- Tax Foundation:
- Did Hillary Clinton Fail Econ 101?, by Gerald Prante
- Distributional Effects of Gas Tax Holiday
- The Distributional Impact of Windfall Profits Taxes and a Gas Tax Holiday, by Gerald Prante
- Is a Windfall Profits Tax Justified by Ability to Pay?, by Gerald Prante
- Record Taxes Paid Before Record Oil Profits, by Scott A. Hodge
- Windfall Profits Taxes Won't Lower Price at the Pump, by Gerald Prante
- The Worst of the Gas Tax Debate, by Gerald Prante
- Tax Policy Center:
- McCain's Gas-Tax Plan Is On Empty, by Leonard E. Burman
- Tax Vox Blog:
- A Primer on the Gas Tax Holiday, by Eric Toder
- The Gas Tax Holiday: Can the States Do Any Better?, by Kim Rueben
- What Were They Thinking?, by Len Burman & Eric Toder
- Wall Street Journal:
- Gas Tax Burlesque
- Windfall Profits for Dummies (editorial)
- Washington Post:
- Clinton Gas-Tax Proposal Criticized; Economists Share Obama's View, by Alec MacGillis & Steven Mufson
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I don't think the gas tax holiday is a good idea for incidence and distributional reasons. That said, many of those who support a higher "Pigouvian" gas tax really don't have an efficiency argument against it.
A Pigouvian tax is premised on equating marginal private costs and marginal social costs. The run-up in gas prices over the last couple years has in some cases exceeded the tax many previously felt was necessary to equate private and social costs. That the private cost of gasoline increased due to market price and not a tax does not alter that. Social costs do not go up proportionally with the market price of gas.
For the Pigouvian purpose of equating private and social costs, it doesn't matter whether the "tax" is imposed by government or rent seeking speculators.
Posted by: edh | May 4, 2008 2:21:09 PM
Clinton on ABC This Week commented that she knew that no economist supported the gas tax amnesty. That is covered in the NYT and more humorously at http://drtaxsacto.blogspot.com - An Addendum to Whistling in the Dark.
Posted by: drtaxsacto | May 5, 2008 9:42:36 AM
