How to burn through political capital...

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If Obama inherited any political capital at all from the recent take down of Bin Laden, here's the perfect way to squander it:

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-actio...rs-by-the-mile

Seriously? Tax drivers by the mile? I thought we did that already with toll roads and/or gasoline taxes, which essentially do the same thing: the more you drive the more you pay in gas tax? If we really want to increase taxes this way, why not just hike the gas tax and be done with it?