Andrea Mitchell has NBC’s gas tax fever

What the heck is in the water at NBC anyway? First it’s Tom Brokaw, now it’s Andrea Mitchell. Both now out of the closet as pro higher gas taxes to ,,, you know … make us energy independent. My guess is they won’t be driving less, just you.

This afternoon Andrea Mitchell is discussing Paul Ryan’s proposal that would cut the budget by $6.2 trillion over 10 years, with Republican Vin Webber & Democrat Martin Frost. The clip begins withFrost’s silly statement that Ryan punted on taxes and concentrated on spending. Ridiculous!  Ryan is the first politician to take on reform of the budget busters Medicare and Medicaid. And his guy, Obama has punted on the entire fiscal mess, that, by the way, he and Washington Democrats blew up in two years, turning a bleeding open wound into a gaping gash.

But what really makes this worth watching is Andrea Mitchell’s out of the blue suggestion to make us energy independant.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3e4r9JsV5I

Clearly NBC is paying these folks too much. Higher gas taxes would clobber the very hard working people these libs purport to care about. And my guess is these folks won’y be cutting their travel. Just for kicks, here’s the Brokaw interview with Obama, December of 2008.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QY4hv5t7Hg

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Jim Vicevich

Jim is a veteran broadcaster and conservative/libertarian blogger with more than 25 years experience in TV and radio. Jim's was the long-term host of The Jim Vicevich Show on WTIC 1080 in Hartford from 2004 through 2019. Prior to radio, Jim worked as a business and financial reporter for NBC30 - the NBC owned TV station in Hartford - and as business editor at WFSB-TV in Hartford for 14 years while earning six Emmy nominations and three Telly Awards.

11 Comments

  1. TomL on April 4, 2011 at 3:03 pm

    She gives blondes a bad name.



  2. Dimsdale on April 4, 2011 at 4:17 pm

    What a great idea: European style fuel prices!   What next, austerity budgets and riots in the streets?

     

    We deride detached professorial types as living in "ivory towers".  How do we deride detached, overpaid newsreaders with an "I got mine" attitude?

     

    Living in TV towers, perhaps?



  3. Marilyn on April 5, 2011 at 2:00 am

    Andera, here's a news flash for you.  Most people don't have a limo. pick them up and take them to work, most people don't make 1mill +.  Were just folks, getting the kids off to school, driving a 15 year old car that most days get's us to our job and picking up some hamburger on our way home to go with that helper for dinner.   All we ask is that people like you don't saddle us with the cost of your feel good politics.



  4. Plainvillian on April 5, 2011 at 2:42 am

    If a higher tax limits something, how do higher taxes not limit others?  If we tax gasoline to limit it's impact, how do higher taxes on businesses not limit their ability to function (and hire more workers)?  Where did our elites and the ruling class learn selective perception and cognitive dissonance?  Or is it "Screw you, I got mine"?



    • NH-Jim on April 5, 2011 at 11:05 am

      Plainvillian, you get the prize!  Right on the money.



  5. Don Lombardo on April 5, 2011 at 2:57 am

    Just another Liberal lackey disguised as as an "objective" journalist.



  6. JollyRoger on April 5, 2011 at 4:22 am

    If you're ever involved in something which is covered by the media, you realize how stupid, biased and inaccurate the media are.   It's amazing the media caterwauling on Big Oil's profits while the government makes more on a gallon of gas than the actual oil company that did all of the work…   And now smart little newsreaders think the price of oil should be doubled?  Is that money bound for Obama's stash?



  7. Tim-in-Alabama on April 5, 2011 at 5:14 am

    Won't higher gas taxes make it harder to buy gasoline refined from all that Brazilian crude oil, the drilling of which we're subsidizing?



  8. BEA on April 6, 2011 at 5:29 am

    Seriously Andrea? Higher gas taxes?

    I went to fill up my minivan yesterday (it was low, but not empty). It cost me $65 to "fill er up" ($3.84/gal)!

    I wondered what piece of that price was taxes so I did a little investigating (senaterepublicans and a US tax map on gas prices from API).

    So, we have a fed tax of $0.18, a fixed st tax of $0.25 (which Malloy wants to increase to $0.28), and a st variable 7% tax on the wholesale cost of gas of approx $0.20…for a grand total of $0.63+ (combined fed, st and local) cents/gallon. CT (63.6)…highest on the east coast, third only to CA (66.1) and HA (64.2).

    And that's just one tiny area of my life your talking about Andrea…not a big deal to you, but add it all together with all the other increases, taking, and "sacrifices"…it is to me!



  9. Dimsdale on April 6, 2011 at 5:45 am

    I liked one caller's "progressive" approach: if Andrea makes 100 times as much money as I do, she pays accordingly for gasoline, i.e. $384.99 per gallon.

     

    It is all about being "fair" after all, right Andrea?



  10. Lynn on April 7, 2011 at 3:14 am

    Thank you< Thank you, I've been too tied up with State politics, it's fun to be back! Great comments all!



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