A Gas Tax Holiday Is An Awful Idea

Jonathan Garner
2 min readJun 22, 2022
Photo by Bryan P.M on Unsplash

Whenever we hear something like ‘tax holiday’, it sounds like a good idea. Who likes taxes? However, that is not what is going on with the gas tax holiday. The tax holiday is being proposed as a relief to consumers because of inflation.

The reality is that a gas tax holiday would just make things worse. It would encourage people to consume more oil, which doesn’t help the oil supply. You’ve probably…

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Jonathan Garner

Finance/Investing/Economics/Philosophy/Religion blogger. I’m also a Philosophy of Religion blogger:https://jonathandavidgarner.wordpress.com/