Commentary: Governments often assume they know best, but not with credit cards and rising gas prices

Commentary: Governments often assume they know best, but not with credit cards and rising gas prices

Everyone is frustrated by the high price of gasoline. But it’s important to keep the blame where it’s due, on the economic cost of war, because politicians are quick to follow Rahm Emanuel’s old advice to never let a “serious crisis go to waste.” Such political expediency was recently displayed by Sen Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), who recently wrote on social media Americans “will spend $58,226,000 on swipe fees at the pump,” an apparent effort to bo…