Representation without Taxation!

Apparently I wasn't the only one watching Tom Brokaw recommend to Senator Obama that we should raise gasoline taxes on Meet the Press this past weekend.

The Washington Post today thinks that, after the Labor Department's announcement this past Friday that the nation lost another 500,000 jobs, now is a good time to raise the federal tax on gasoline, now at 18.4 cents per gallon, to 65 cents per gallon.

Of course the Washington Post, just like its big brother, The New York Times, exists within its own liberal universe, oblivious to the reality that the majority of American citizens have to exist within. They claim that "a higher gas tax would buy valuable public goods: national security; a cleaner environment; and safer, less congested streets... " but fail to acknowledge the reality that more than half of federal gas tax revenues currently realized is used for political pork, not for the maintenance of the nation's roads, infrastructure or research into alternative energy.

Nevertheless, a liberal will always be hard pressed to pass up an opprotunity to try and suck more blood from the American taxpayer, even when that taxpayer is turning to stone.

I am beginning to believe that our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.