I don't know how else to say it, no other way to make it clearer, other than just saying it. So, here it goes: Raise the gas tax stupid! Why this one amazingly simple and effective policy has found such resistance is honestly beyond me. I realize that Republicans, as a whole, are adverse to raising taxes, which I know makes me a bad Republican, but I cannot see any other way out of the transportation nightmare that we are just now entering. What really surprises me is the resistance of the Democrats to raising this tax.