Gas Tax Holiday?

Sounds like a bad idea to me.  I’m not a big fan of pandering, and this really smacks of Clinton and McCain attempting to buy our votes with money the government doesn’t have.

People say they want the government to be run like a business, but since businesses exist soley to make money (except for non-profits, and even then…) I think that is not the goal we want of our government.  A government should be run like a household.  It should make money in order to provide for the needs of those living under its roof.

Where am I going with this?  Well, say you’re the head of a household.  Your financial situation isn’t looking so good, and it looks like your wife and kids may be losing their jobs.  So, what do you do?  Bringing in less money does not sound like a good idea to me.  Convincing your family’s jobs to give them more money sounds like a better idea to me.

To stop the analogy, real wages have not increased in quite awhile, and I think the economy is starting to feel the effects.  People say that raising the minimum wage hurts businesses by forcing them to spend more of their money on their employees.  However, most of the companies that pay minimum wage are companies that people spend a lot of money at:  retail stores, grocery stores, dry cleaners, etc.  So, giving people more money to spend actually will give those companies a boost.

So, again, I think that companies need to bail out the economy, not the government.