High gas prices contribute to the above. Perhaps if the trucks that bring the bread and milk, and the tractors on the farms that provide the wheat for the bread and the hay for the cows that give the milk all pay less for diesel, then prices come down. Taxes are a leech on productivity. McCain doesn’t want “Artificially cheaper gas prices”, he wants gas to stop being artificially high with a tacked on tax taking money out of the pockets of the people who drive the economy.

Not saying this is the end-all-be-all of economic stimulus, but doesn’t sound like a bad idea to me. As for infrastructure, no-one can seriously make the argument that the $11bn that this will cost can’t come from somewhere else in the 3 trillion in tax revenue the federal government collects. Take it from somewhere that doesn’t put undue burden on our farmers, truckers, and families, please.