Nobody.
Pay for it with a gas tax or national sales tax.
I could be wrong, but isn’t infrastructure a local thing 0 with the exception of roads (interstate highway system), etc. that cross state lines?
President Trump set a trap....and she fell for it...hook, line and sinker.
She should have just shut up.
Colorado DOT gives the gas tax to the general fund then builds a bunch of bike trails and a couple roundabouts and calls it good. The left over monies never goes to schools.
Ok so once they “pay” for all this nonsense, are they going to remove the tax?
Not a chance!
If it’s Chuck and Nancy’s idea it’s a Scam
Pay for it with a gas tax or national sales tax.
You simply pay a percentage of the cost when you purchase an item for your use. No IRS at all based on income. No government intrusion into your income, but only intrusion into what sales tax was collected when you sold a good or service to someone else.
So, a house painter pays for all of his tools, vehicles, clothing, etc. None of it is tax deductible. But when he paints a house for $1000, he charges a certain percentage tax rate - lets say 15% - and collects an additional %150, which he pays directly to the government.
It will never happen, of course. The number of accountants, attorneys, and entire tax departments of large to medium sized companies would be suddenly out of work. i.e. it would destroy our economy.
But a guy can dream.
Agree. We should not borrow more money to pay for this. If we need to do this then raise the revenue to do it: Quit borrowing to pay for stuff!
Yet neither party wants to take the political risk of paying for it when all options are toxicNo, all options are not toxic, but the one option that is ultimately fully viable is repugnant to the Uniparty: full privatization and repeal of all taxes.
Start out with a lie. FEDERAL gas taxes are among the lowest in the developed world, but each state puts its own taxes on top of that, so we are paying a bunch of gas taxes.
Here in the state of Ohio, one of the first things our new Republican governor has proposed is higher gas taxes. The Republican legislature said wait a minute...we agree, but the tax increase should be less. Now they are negotiating on how much to raise taxes to fund infrastructure projects. And that is what Republicans are doing.
An increase to the gas tax will hurt California.
These tax and spend politicians are really horrible.
JoMa
140 billion gallons of gasoline are sold each year. So a $10 per gallon tax for the next year and a half should cover the bill.
/sarc
Here’s an idea. How much do the 17 secret security agencies cost the American taxpayers? They botched the Bay of Pigs in Cuba. They didn’t see the fall of the USSR. They didn’t see the attack on 9/11. They didn’t see the takeover of the Ukraine and Crimea by Russia.
However, they seem to have had enough time on their hands to break the law by spying on Donald Trump for almost two years before he became president, and they continued their illegal spying even AFTER his election. Given this sorry record, we should eliminate these agencies and devote the money to fixing the infrastructure of this country, a true win/win.
The Founders did not think that secret police and standing armies were a good plan forward for a free United States. They were right.
Okay. Do infrastructure. Start with a giant wall along the Mehican border. Or fogettaboutit.
If they didn’t waste so much money on pet projects and corruption scandals, our overall taxes would be less and roads/infrastructure would have been the first items taken care of with little increase in taxes...
Sales tax only or raise solve all and commuter subway prices an equal amount to gas.
Can you give me any reason why Priusses and other hybrids get a free or even subsidized ride?
The federal and state governments already make more money per gallon than anyone else along the entire production/distribution/retail chain.
The problem is, that money was supposed to be for roads for vehicles, but it's being spent on bike paths, choo-choo trains, green space, bus programs, and a multitude of other things that are not roads for vehicles.
When they stop frittering road taxes away, and start funneling them back to actual roads for vehicles, then I might consider paying more fuel tax to compensate for any shortfall.