Ross Perot on Energy & Oil

Supported 50-cent gas tax to pay off deficit

Perot’s ideas [in the 1992 campaign] were often innovative-including the politically unpopular position of imposing a fifty-cent-a-gallon gasoline tax increase to help pay off the deficit. Source: Citizen Perot, by Gerald Posner, p.257 Jul 2, 1996

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