Brilliant: Dick Trumka Says That Higher Gas Taxes Will... Create Jobs

The crypto-Marxist who heads up the AFL-CIO is a guy named Richard "Dick" Trumka. And he, with his extensive and legendary experience of shaking down private businesses negotiating for workers and paying off Democrat politicians judiciously rewarding his political allies, says that raising taxes will create jobs.

And I'm sorry to say that this isn't a satirical story.

Though I know it's hard to tell sometimes.

What's the best way to get Americans back to work?

Raise taxes, according to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. Specifically, he wants to raise the federal gas tax as a means to fund infrastructure spending.

My memory's a little fuzzy on this topic, but didn't we spend a trillion dollars on a "Stimulus" program to do that? And didn't the unemployment rate continue rising to its current 20% un- and underemployment level? Why, yes, I believe so.

"We need a dedicated source of revenue to create infrastructure in this country... We need to create jobs. The best way to do that is through infrastructure development."

Let me guess: they'll all be shovel-ready projects. Which will employ only unionized labor. Lucky guess, right?

Trumka didn't say specifically how much he would raise the gas tax, but mentioned he's shown the President a $256 billion plan to improve infrastructure. If every billion spent on infrastructure creates 35,000 jobs, as he claims, this package would create close to 9 million jobs over the next five years.

Schmuck -- didn't you learn the lingo? It's save or create close to 9 million jobs! C'mon, you know better than that!

Didn't those "two or three visits a week to the White House" teach you a thing?

Perhaps Trumka's arithmetic skills are part of Wisconsin's "new math" curriculum that lets the teachers collect boffo bucks when they're faking sick-days.