Posted on 03/12/2015 10:45:58 AM PDT by C19fan
A group representing road builders said Thursday that the federal gas tax should be increased by 15 cents per gallon to help pay for infrastructure improvements.
The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) said increasing the gas tax this year would raise $401 billion for new transportation spending.
The gas tax hike could be offset with a “federal tax rebate for middle and lower income Americans for six years,” the group suggested.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
If they spent 100% of the current gas tax on roads and not to finance stupid liberal ideas, they probably wouldn’t need an increase in the first place.
Crony Capitalism out in the open. That’s a novel approach.
Must be nice to run a business and not have to worry about marketing or motivating a sales force or anything.
Just send your lobbyist to Washington, DC and bribe them to buy what you’re selling with other peoples’ money.
User taxes are deposited in the General Fund of the Treasury and the amounts equivalent to these taxes are then transferred on paper to the HTF. Transfers are made at least monthly on the basis of estimates by the Secretary of the Treasury and later adjusted on the basis of actual tax receipts. Amounts in the HTF in excess of current expenditure requirements are invested in public debt securities. Until October 1, 1998, the securities were interest-bearing and interest from the securities was credited to the fund. Since that time, the HTF balance has been invested in non-interest-bearing securities. …Trustworthy, even if all funds go towards roads allegedly?
A group representing “road builders” who want to steal money from the already over-taxed public need to have their a$$es kicked.
Rent-seeking parasites.
Road builders=Union workers & Union rates.
So, here in California the cost of a single gallon of gas would be nearly $1 dollar or $.972 cents per gallon!!!
Just one month ago I paid just under $2 a gallon, which means the government would have accounted for at least one half of my purchase!!!
Supposedly 60% of the current taxes go to roads and bridges, while the other 40% are for “earmarked” projects, whatever that means.
I can’t think of a single business where 50% of the cost for delivering your product is a single line item.
Labor, once it reaches 25% for production becomes problematic
Once cost of materials, from inception to delivery, reaches 30% it become problematic
But, the usurious cost of nearly 50% of the final delivered product isn’t?
Well, at least it isn’t from the company producing and delivering but, for the consumer and businesses it is and there really ought to be a way to stop this.
Besides, these taxes at the pump they also demand from us bonds and other way of financing projects.
The costs for government run projects really is out of control.
This proposal by a union is only a means to keep their membership employed on predictable projects.
It does nothing to control the spiraling costs from inherent government inefficiencies and really, their outstanding incompetence...
democrat politicians would get a nickle of it , republicans another cents leaving 9 cents for infrastructure. Hiring illegals to do jobs Americans won’t do.
“Rent-seeking parasites.”
Ii makes more sense on “circle of life” terms to see them as predators, not parasites.
We may not like that relationship, but no one cares about the opinions of prey animals.
Mmm K, ARTBA:
Can your members really afford another 15 cents per gallon for gas?
>>I might support a has tax hike if in return Davis-Bacon is repealed and 100% of the gas tax is used for roads<<
Not I! Cut federal spending. There is enough waste, overlap and unnecessary bureaucrats. I say for starters, 10% cut across the board in all gubbamint agencies.
Then eliminate the IRS outright. There you'll find all the $$$ one needs.
saw this the other day...state gas tax map
http://www.api.org/oil-and-natural-gas-overview/industry-economics/fuel-taxes/gasoline-tax
“a ‘federal tax rebate for middle and lower income Americans for six years’”
Yeah, “soak the rich.” It seems class warfare is increasingly becoming a part of policy proposals. Even from business groups. Already, a relatively small minority of taxpayers are paying 50-90% of the tax burden. This is the leftist way to redistribute wealth—exempt ever larger segments of people from paying their proportionate share (thereby buying votes—what a deal).
Who knew that the Road Builders group was among the downtrodden?
Wait just a minute. They fixed all the infrastructure right after bam was elected. I forget the name of the thing TARP? They had all those signs on the side of the roads.
I think it is in Oregon they are starting a volunteer program to tax a car by the mile. 10 other states doing it too.
As a county engineer I would support this too, however the federal highway funding system is broken. It takes years and more money then you have to pay Davis Bacon to the construction crews just to to get through the permitting, environmental, cultural/archeological, and biological studiesand reports. On top of that your state DOT takes most of the money and very little actually funds local projects.
Fine....only if they start building roads that DON’T use asphalt. Concrete roads last 70 years in New England. Granite cobblestone city streets are 200 years old....re-usable components.....and keep speed to a safe rate....naturally.
I know what i see. Asphalt is oil lobby; and constant maintenance, union labor’s silver spoon.
Factions of today’s drugged up, government supported middle class are only beginning to see the situation as it is. Not much of the funding is going to workfare. It’s going to other factions of the government supported middle class. Soon, the chomping between factions will commence in earnest. Stock up on popcorn for the great political zombie show.
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