Climate action? Politically Vulnerable Democrats Demand Gas Tax Cuts – Raise By That?

h / t Breitbart; It’s almost as if they think saving their own political cover-ups is more important than the crisis of our times.

Vulnerable Senate MPs Try to Run Like Tax Cutters

They are pitching gas tax holidays and other pocket-friendly plans to combat the GOP message on inflation. But any practical proposal goes a long way.

Via BURGESS EVERETT and MARIANNE LEVINE
02/16/2022 03:18 PM EST

Vulnerable Senate Democrats are attempting a bold strategy: Run for re-election as the real tax-cutters in Congress, even if it makes them anti- some of their closed-door colleagues.

A quartet of the most threatened Democrats in the chamber are backing a proposal to suspend the federal gas tax through the end of the year and urge their party to embrace it as a signature economic pitch. before the midterm deadline. And more ideas are on their way to ease voters’ pockets.

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It’s no coincidence that the Democrats are most involved in the new fight from the toughest battlefields: Sens. Mark Kelly of Arizona, Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada and Warnock. But as inflation blankets the economy and prices continue to rise, senators say they are merely responding to voters’ concerns.

“What you see from me is an effort to reduce costs by the people, whether it is through the gas tax relief bill or other bills that I am considering introducing,” Warnock said in an interview. . Republicans are “focused on politics and I focus on the people that I am here to represent… people are struggling and they focus on how they pay for their groceries.”

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Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/16/vulnerable-senate-dems-tax-cuts-00009497

It’s a shame that vulnerable democrats haven’t thought of the political problems high gas taxes will cause, when people like them.

I find this interesting, because it demonstrates once again how fragile political commitment to climate action really is. The moment there is any real blowback, the pledge to climate action will disappear and politicians are looking for any solution that can regain some of their crumbling support.