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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (190692)	5/1/2010 1:55:18 PM
From: cirrus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361897

It is true that gasoline taxes, like most sales and excise taxes, are regressive, squeezing the poor hardest; but that problem is surmountable. "There could be compensating changes elsewhere," says William Gale, an economist at the Brookings Institution. "We should be thinking about progressivity and regressivity in the context of the overall tax system. Not every single feature of the tax system needs to be progressive to satisfy distributional needs." reason.com