re: #42 recusancy

After the fall of GM and Chrysler, you’d be surprised how feeble the opposition is to a gas tax.

Conservative libertarians - me - are OK with taxes to approximate otherwise unrecoverable externalities. Toss in dying servicemen and the case is easy.

My last post garbled a key piece: someone other than the politicos would directly administer the trust fund with these new tax revenues, and the only thing they could do with the funds is buy back US treasuries (i.e., retire the debt).