Remembering Paul "Tax On Gas"
I think one of the things that ended his campaign was his idea for a 50 cent per gallon federal gasoline tax. I forget what he indended to use the money for but the voters didn't like the notion. Even Clinton trashed the notion of raising the gasoline tax - then he pushed a smaller gas tax increase of his own through Congress in 1993. This was after Gore's BTU tax was soundly defeated.