Cheney Tax Plan From '86 Would Have Raised Gas Prices

[Manix]

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In October 1986, when Dick Cheney was the lone congressman from energy-rich Wyoming, he introduced legislation to create a new import tax that would have caused the price of oil, and ultimately the price of gasoline paid by drivers, to soar by billions of dollars per year.

"Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States," Mr. Cheney, who is now vice president, said shortly after introducing the legislation.




NY Times

[underpants]

1. Sounds like Dick wanted to raise taxes to make people drive less

Mr. Cheney said at the time that unemployment in Wyoming was 9 percent and he argued that the low prices could permanently impair domestic oil production and leave the United States at the mercy of foreign suppliers.

[mot78]

2. Yet another */Cheney flip flop

[grannylib]

3. Yeppers, and no surprise...have you sent this to Air America and other

talk shows, etc. to make sure it gets the attention it deserves?

[Moderator]

4. locking

That's old news, not LBN, first published on the 5th.