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The Michigan GOP is taking a lesson from the national GOP establishment on this one: When all the appropriated funds run out after doing a terrible job in the first place, blame it on everybody but themselves, raise taxes even more claiming it is temporary - and then when that is not enough blame it on taxpayers for not being generous.

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Last November, Graves introduced the Transportation Empowerment Act, which was cosponsored through Senate legislation by Republican Mike Lee. By drastically reducing the tax, it would enable states to manage their own transportation policies, improving a process that has become massively inefficient under federal oversight.

“It's rather silly,” Graves told theAtlanta Journal-Constitution, that “taxpayers pay taxes at the pump that go to the federal government, [which] then tells our state how it must spend the money,” even though it doesn't “give you all the money you submitted.”

http://reason.com/archives/2014/03/22/death-to-the-federal-gas-tax Sounds good to me.