Nat Towsen

And if the holiday ends, are prices likely to actually decrease in response?

Or do we think that they will just keep them at the level that the consumer is already willing to pay?

Yeah.

I'm only nitpicking for clarity.

But so, Congressman, is this just another example of the classic Republican strategy of like

fighting sticker shock versus actual systemic change?

The idea is essentially, you're saying you need taxes.

Taxes are the price of a free society.

I totally agree.

This is just another example of, oh, the cost that you're paying out at the pump or people aren't doing the major calculation of how much taxes are actually improving, where that money is going, but you can see when you're spending money.

Is it just relying on people

misunderstanding costs at that very basic level?

So I don't think the promise has really paid off.

I don't think we have anything that you just listed.

Like, I hear what you're saying, but it hasn't failed yet.

We haven't tried any of it.

I mean, you know, maybe some municipal levels, but there's not a lot.

I mean, Massachusetts has health care, you know, but these are not like failures of implementation.

Do you think perhaps that the – just purely optics, right?

You're talking about giving people money, promising free stuff is very easy to be happy about, right?