Can you think of anything as ridiculous as the Republican-sponsored plan to rebate $100 to all taxpayers with income below a certain point in order to offset the increased price of gasoline?   For one thing what is anyone going to do with $100?   Buy more gasoline?   The taxation of fuel being what it is, most of the money will come back to the government in the form of taxes anyways!   What is this supposed to accomplish?   I suppose that's fairly obvious since the idea is really to buy votes in the upcoming elections.   But if they want to buy my vote, they can more easily roll back the tax on gas by 5-10 cents a gallon or something like that.   What's most upsetting about this is it fails to recognize that the law of supply and demand is what caused the price to increase in the first place.   By giving people, who might otherwise be more judicious about cutting down unnecessary driving, a little extra money, ostensibly for gasoline, you do nothing to impact the underlying economic forces.   If we cut the nation's consumption of gas, the price might back down even without a reduction of taxes and we'd all be better off by hundreds of dollars.   This is the worst sort of legislation.   Anyone who signs it ought to be ashamed of themselves.