Congressman Adam Smith

I'm not certain about this, but oil companies price their product by and large at what they think people are going to pay.

I don't know what the federal gas tax is.

I suppose I should, but it's probably 20, 25 cents, something like that.

You get rid of it.

How much of that savings is really going to go to consumers and how much of that oil company is going to say, look, we got them used to paying $6 and a quarter for gas.

Let's just keep them paying $6 and a quarter for gas.

I hate the idea of getting rid of the gas tax with an absolutely abiding passion.

is the short answer to your question.

That's pretty unequivocal.

Well, I think it's simpler than that.

And it's not just the Republican Party.

You know, it's just promising people money, you know, and that's something I worry about, you know, right and left.

It's like, yeah, I know the easiest way to get someone's vote is to give them money.

OK, you know, but at the end of the day, you wind up in debt up to your eyeballs and not having made any good decisions.

And I see this on the left and on the right.

We Democrats promise free health care, free child care, free education, free transportation, free housing.

That really doesn't work past a certain point.

Well, we don't have any of those things.

You're right.

Yeah.