Hi Doug - In a disturbing New York Times column, the professor who co-authored a book with the new Federal Reserve chairmans called for a $2 gas tax. Robert Frank, who wrote "Principles of Economics" with Bernanke, also contributed to the massively left wing MoveOn.org. Just as Bernanke was enjoying the limelight on Capitol Hill, his co-author was advocating a pro-tax stance four times higher than the radical position Al Gore took.
Read the full scoop by the Free Market Project here: <http://www.freemarketproject.org/news/2006/news20060216b.asp>http://www.freemarketproject.org/news/2006/news20060216b.asp. The Times downplayed this connection. Would you like to interview the Boone Pickens Free Market Fellow, Dan Gainor, to bring it to light?
Colleen
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Colleen O'Boyle
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