Tax Tax Tax!

I sort of liked Thomas Friedman until recently. His latest kick is the environment, I preferred his stuff on globalization and business.

But now he's all government, all the time, government is the answer.

Check this out from his latest article "Real Men Tax Gas": "Such a tax would make our economy healthier by reducing the deficit, by stimulating the renewable energy industry, by strengthening the dollar through shrinking oil imports and by helping to shift the burden of health care away from business to government so our companies can compete better globally. Such a tax would make our population healthier by expanding health care and reducing emissions. Such a tax would make our national-security healthier by shrinking our dependence on oil from countries that have drawn a bull’s-eye on our backs and by increasing our leverage over petro-dictators, like those in Iran, Russia and Venezuela, through shrinking their oil incomes."

Oh yeah, it'll turn out exactly that way. I mean, we've never complained about gas being $1 higher per gallon. (Granted, I'm not sure if he was promoting that $1 rate per gallon or barrel or what). Let's give more money to the government so it can solve our problems like governments have been doing since the dawn of time. Wait...