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It’s not a joke to a interstate trucker.

No kidding - if the Highway Trust Fund dries up because these idiots want to temporarily cancel the gas tax, then truckers are in trouble (the Highway Trust Fund will probably run out as it is in 2009 or 2010 - it hasn't been increased since either the STA Act was signed by President Reagan in '82 or 83, or something Bush or Clinton signed in the early '90s).

Are they going to tell truckers "sorry about all of the potholes and bridges falling apart, but the trust fund ran out of money, BUT HEY, WE SAVED YOU SOME MONEY BY CUTTING THE TAX - YOU'LL BE ABLE TO USE THAT MONEY TO BUY NEW TIRES THAT YOU NEED BECAUSE YOU ARE DRIVING ON CRAPPY HIGHWAYS THAT NEED MAINTENANCE!"

The funniest thing about all of this - it would cost money to cancel the gas tax temporarily - a lot of paperwork would be generated, databases would have to be tweaked (lots of overtime), etc.

They would probably lay off the people who work on the highway infrastructure as well - God only knows how much it would cost us to rehire them at the end of the summer or to find replacements.

Then again, Hillary has never been one to think that far ahead - she thinks the American people can be bought off by $30 or $50 over the summer.

She doesn't realize just how much it costs to maintain the highways and that a large chunk of that comes from the Highway Trust Fund which comes from the gas tax.

Of course, if you pointed out to her that canceling the gas tax would cripple the work and maintenance needed on the interstate highways, and that it would hurt truckers the most by causing even worse conditions than already exist on the highways, she'd give you some sob story about how her great-uncle was a trucker and she grew up driving across the US with him.