Additional taxes always resonate with big gov’t dirtbags.
Alarm bells resonate too.
Recall when this was last raised, 1993 by Clinton and Dem congress. Then they got booted 1994 election.
The truckers incorrectly assume the tax hike money will be used to improve the roads. More than likely, it will be used to expand the welfare state.
I suppose that this nitwit has never heard of the phrase: “TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY”?
simple response: drive as little as possible.
Higher gas taxes resonate with truckers, eh?
I dare him to walk into a truck stop and shout out THAT proposal.
If these fools actually think that the $$$ from a fuel tax increase will actually be spent to improve the roads - they need electric shock treatments.
“When we had our initial hearing, the Trucking Association came down and said ‘they’re not in the business of raising cost for their members or making life more difficult for their members, but they supported raising the diesel fuel tax on the truckers because they wanted to have a first rate, efficient transportation system,” said Petri, who is a member of the GOP’s leadership team on the Transportation Committee.
Not mentioned of course is that the ‘big operators’ will absorb the costs at first and then when their competitors go belly up they will then pass the expenses on to their customers. It’s how Crony Capitalism rolls, folks.
They love other people’s money. Locally, they are pushing for rail that goes 25 mph for billions of dollars. Time to call somebody. We have no Congressman Young any more. Just Rubio.
Annnnnd shocker. Petri is a member of the Republican Main Street Partnership:
http://www.republicanmainstreet.org/members/
has everyone forgotten "stimulus"? Giving the government more money is not going to make the roads better.
Hitting someone in the head with a frying pan “resonates” too.
Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
GOP membership of the Transportation Committee:
Bill Shuster - Pennsylvania, Chairman
Don Young - Alaska
Thomas E. Petri - Wisconsin
Howard Coble - North Carolina
John J. Duncan Jr. - Tennessee
John L. Mica - Florida
Frank A. LoBiondo - New Jersey
Gary G. Miller - California
Sam Graves - Missouri
Shelley Moore Capito - West Virginia
Candice S. Miller - Michigan
Duncan Hunter - California
Eric A. “Rick” Crawford - Arkansas
Lou Barletta - Pennsylvania
Blake Farenthold - Texas
Larry Bucshon - Indiana
Bob Gibbs - Ohio
Patrick Meehan - Pennsylvania
Richard L. Hanna - New York
Daniel Webster - Florida
Steve Southerland, II - Florida
Jeff Denham - California
Reid J. Ribble - Wisconsin
Thomas Massie - Kentucky
Steve Daines - Montana
Tom Rice - South Carolina
Markwayne Mullin - Oklahoma
Roger Williams - Texas
Trey Radel - Florida
Mark Meadows - North Carolina
Scott Perry - Pennsylvania
Rodney Davis - Illinois
Mark Sanford - South Carolina
I don’t mind truckers volunteering to pay more taxes. That’s their business. Hey truckers: there’s a place on your federal tax return where you can include your selfless gift. Go for it.
But I mind the hell out of truckers volunteering ME to pay more taxes. Go screw yourselves would be my first reaction. After thinking it through, though, my second reaction is go screw yourselves with something red hot.
Anyway, if this comes to pass, I’ll get to pay double; more for every mile I drive, PLUS increased cost of goods from those altruistic truckers passing their increased taxes along to me. Sweet.
Seems to me there must be enough money in the fund already, since they
have enough to plant thousands of crepe myrtles, junipers, and daffodils
at all of the interchanges around here.