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Clinton, McCain & Obama Gas Tax Roundup

May 3, 2008

Angry Bear:
- Gas Tax Holiday: Bill Polley Explains Incidence of the Tax Break
- My Mayor Blasts the McCain-Clinton Gasoline Tax Holiday
Associated Press:
- Obama Attacks Clinton’s Gas Tax Plan, by David Espo & Beth Fouhy
- Obama Says Clinton, McCain Are Wrong on Gas-Tax Plan
Bloomberg:
- Clinton Caught in Time Warp With Windfall Oil Tax, by Amity Shlaes
- Clinton, McCain Push Gas Tax Break Economists Panned, by Alison Fitzgerald
Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research:
- Studying the Effects of Gas Tax Moratorium, by Joseph J. Doyle, Jr. & Krislert Samphantharak
Citizens for Tax Justice:
- The Clinton-McCain Gas Tax Proposal: Get Half a Tank Free This Summer
- Gas Taxes: When Is An "Increase" Not An "Increase"?
The Hill:
- Environmental Group Backs Obama Over Gas Tax Stance, by J. Taylor Rushing
L.A. Times:
- Critics Denounce Gas Tax "Holiday" Backed by Clinton and McCain, by Michael Finnegan
Mauled Again:
- Another Candidate Jumps on the Bad Tax Policy Vote Trolling Bandwagon
- Vote Trolling Creates Bad Tax Policy
Greg Mankiw’s Blog:
- More on the Gas Tax Holiday
New York Daily News:
- Obama & Clinton Pumped Up on Gas Tax, by Michael Saul
New York Observer: Bloomberg: Clinton-McCain Gas Tax Break Is the "’Dumbest" Thing, by Azi Paybarah
New York Times:
- Democrats Divided Over Gas Tax Break, by John M. Broder
- The Gas-Guzzler Gambit (editorial)
- Unlikely Allies Campaign for a Gas-Tax Holiday, by Julie Bosman
NPR:
- Historian Details Roots of Windfall Profit Tax
Reuters:
- White House Hopefuls Battle Over Gas Tax Holiday
Tax Foundation:
- Did Hillary Clinton Fail Econ 101?, by Gerald Prante
- Distributional Effects of Gas Tax Holiday
- The Distributional Impact of Windfall Profits Taxes and a Gas Tax Holiday, by Gerald Prante
- Is a Windfall Profits Tax Justified by Ability to Pay?, by Gerald Prante
- Record Taxes Paid Before Record Oil Profits, by Scott A. Hodge
- Windfall Profits Taxes Won’t Lower Price at the Pump, by Gerald Prante
- The Worst of the Gas Tax Debate, by Gerald Prante
Tax Policy Center:
- McCain’s Gas-Tax Plan Is On Empty, by Leonard E. Burman
Tax Vox Blog:
- A Primer on the Gas Tax Holiday, by Eric Toder
- The Gas Tax Holiday: Can the States Do Any Better?, by Kim Rueben
- What Were They Thinking?, by Len Burman & Eric Toder
Wall Street Journal:
- Gas Tax Burlesque
- Windfall Profits for Dummies (editorial)
Washington Post:
- Clinton Gas-Tax Proposal Criticized; Economists Share Obama’s View, by Alec MacGillis & Steven Mufson

About the Author

Paul Caron was named Duane and Kelly Roberts Dean of Pepperdine University School of Law on June 1, 2017. Dean Caron joined the Pepperdine faculty in 2013 after serving as the Dorothy and Leonard Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law in the spring semesters of 2010 through 2013. He served as Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at Pepperdine in 2015-2017. Before coming to Pepperdine, he was Associate Dean of Faculty and Charles Hartsock Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law.

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