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There's a reason that the people you met who didn't have drivers licenses were from DC and NYC, and it wasn't because they had massive driving fees or were otherwise penalized from driving.

It was because public transportation was actually good, and more convenient than driving.  Which is exactly the point I'm making.

To be clear on my original point, though, I don't necessarily think that Democrats need to be risk-averse, they just need to be on top of messaging anything that feels punitive.  For example with a gas tax, you can point at lessening our dependence on foreign oil, on assessing the true costs of burning gas, on encouraging clean domestic energy production, etc.

The way you phrased it struck me as very "nanny state", which is a label conservatives love to pin on liberals.  We shouldn't be cowed by them, but we shouldn't play into their hands either.

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by: ccarollo @ Tue Jul 07, 2009 at 15:49:10 PM CDT

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