Young Oak Kim: “here we go again, attacking the free market. I guess we need a bigger government to control more and more. Mr. Speaker…”

“here we go again, attacking the free market. I guess we need a bigger government to control more and more. Mr. Speaker, I represent a portion of southern California where people are paying almost $2 a gallon for gasoline. That is right, $2. That is ridiculous. The people are angry. The people are even angrier when they find out that Congress slapped a tax on gasoline to pay for numerous social programs. That is right, Congress increased the gasoline tax in 1993 to pay for numerous additional social programs. In the past, the gas tax worked fine because all of the moneys went to fixing highways and potholes. What happens today? Only a fraction of the gas tax money is spent on highways and bridges. That is the problem. My position is simple. If we are not going to fix the highways, then we should not collect this gas tax money. Let me tell you how we are going to lower the cost of gasoline. It is simple. Let us repeal the Clinton gas tax increase of 1993.”