Posted on 11/28/2012 2:17:01 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
As lawmakers race to negotiate a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff, some experts say one tax increase should be on the table: a gas tax hike.
Currently at 18.4 cents a gallon, the federal gas tax is used primarily to build and repair roads, bridges and other transportation infrastructure. The tax raises about $32 billion a year.
But that's not enough. The government hands out about $50 billion a year to states and towns to help with road costs. The difference comes out of general funds or has to be borrowed. Meanwhile, the gas tax hasn't been raised since 1993.
"Establishing a sustainable resource base for transportation needs to be part of any grand bargain," said Emil Frankel, a former transportation expert in the George W. Bush administration and now director of transportation policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center. "In the short run, raising the gas tax is the best way to do that."
Raising the gas tax was one of the recommendations of the Simpson-Bowles debt reduction plan in 2010. The plan called for a 15 cent-a-gallon hike to the gas tax, a level that would basically cover the current shortfall in the transportation budget...
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ROTFLMAO! Yeah, right. Don't hold your breath...
They do that and I’m going to reload every empty casing I have, fill up and head to D.C.
So is the twit proposing this an urbanite who is clueless about the distances in this country and the need of rural folks to drive, or a vengeful ‘Rat who wants to stick it to the Red states that backed Romney? (The two alternatives are not mutually exclusive.)
Exactly, The Feds waste about 40 percent of the federal road users taxes on bureaucracy, BS studies, bicycle paths, choo-choo trains, urban bus lines and miscellaneous crap! One of my complaints with the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), et al is that their national leadership are Obama whores and economic illiterates. I know because I am a member!
why did zero send one billion dollars to Uganda ?
It WILL cut spending!
I LOVE this idea! This taxes the average citizen—so many Obozo voters—and it hits them harder with costs of goods going up with trucking!
THEN, maybe ...there will be pressure on the Senate and Administration to Stop Spending. Now, its just working people who have skin in the game and of course we have all the uneducated that thinks the money just comes “from the govt”. Wait till it comes from them!
see my post #26.
this will placate the libtards as only rich people drive cars.
Yep, we’re on the same page. Maybe it’s time that the Obama voters start paying for all the services that they DEMAND.
“so many Obozo votersand it hits them harder with costs of goods going up with trucking!
THEN, maybe ...there will be pressure on the Senate and Administration to Stop Spending.”
I doubt it. The typical moron O voter in this country will just blame the “evil business” for not absorbing the cost increase and instead passing it along in the price. They they will start screaming for price caps, “anti-gouging laws!”
As they experience shortages, they will still be blaming the evil businesses (bourgois) for not giving them free stuff! As they starve to death, they would sing praise to Obama and his ilk with their last breath.
Sadly, you are no doubt correct.
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