it is it a broad tax and certainly hits people with lower incomes harder because they re spending more of their income on gas. if you asked the question in 2004, you could make a case for gas tax. but our economy is teetering on economy. it is a stealth tax and never goes away and the funds don t go to highways and nothing down to encourage driving . the tax revenue will go somewhere else. john, i mentioned in the top of the segment that republicans are apparently okay or considering it. the new republican head of the committee in the house of representatives said he will not put it off of the table. if they do this, this is the quick path to being the minority party. hopefully they will wake up to that. at some point washington works for us and not them. why can t they sacrifice and spend less of wour money so we