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GOP bill would hike gas tax by 10 cents
The Hill ^ | 07/09/2015 | Keith Laing

Posted on 07/09/2015 4:27:26 AM PDT by GIdget2004

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To: GIdget2004

Since I drive on roads, I don’t mind paying the gas tax.

And 10 cents per year is less than $100 for my family. It’s not going to kill us.

(but some people in the Houston and Dallas areas now pay several thousand dollars in tolls per year [the alternative to raising the gas tax] - that would sting)


21 posted on 07/09/2015 5:07:27 AM PDT by BobL (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my 'about' page))
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To: GIdget2004

Ummm . . . Wasn’t there a lot of “stimulus” money that was supposed to pay for transportation projects a couple of years ago?

Anybody remember “shovel-ready” jobs?


22 posted on 07/09/2015 5:11:21 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Biology is biology. Everything else is imagination.)
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To: GIdget2004

How about reducing their salary by 10%?


23 posted on 07/09/2015 5:18:15 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: Bulwyf

Bingo.


24 posted on 07/09/2015 5:26:31 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: GIdget2004
It would raise the gas tax by about 10 cents-per-gallon, which would cost the average driver about $130 per year. It would be offset by a $133 income tax credit, so it's revenue-neutral.

So people who DON'T DRIVE get the tax credit, but DRIVERS get the tax increase? No thanks.

25 posted on 07/09/2015 5:57:39 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: GIdget2004

RINOs growing already over-bloated government.


26 posted on 07/09/2015 5:58:38 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: GIdget2004
and it has not passed a transportation bill that lasts longer than two years in that span

And where is the accounting for the $286.4 billion signed by Bush in 2005? And where is the accounting for the billions in "stimulus" from 2009-2011?

NO MORE MONEY!!!

27 posted on 07/09/2015 6:03:47 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.)
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To: Arm_Bears

Yeap, I watched them install street lights with fabulous lamp posts and sidewalks along a 4 mile stretch of road no one walks on...

But they took a couple of years to do it. At least that company was stimulated.


28 posted on 07/09/2015 6:36:56 AM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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To: lowbridge

Because only people below a certain income level would receive the credit........as usual.
You know that’s the way it would be. They never tell the whole truth.


29 posted on 07/09/2015 8:07:34 AM PDT by sheana
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To: Arm_Bears

That........and that stimulus money has been built into the cr’s ever since. It never went away.


30 posted on 07/09/2015 8:09:18 AM PDT by sheana
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To: GIdget2004

Of course no spending cuts. :-)


31 posted on 07/09/2015 8:14:39 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: GIdget2004

With a GOP like this, who needs Democrats?


32 posted on 07/09/2015 12:56:45 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: EternalVigilance

Ha—I see you already posted my comment!


33 posted on 07/09/2015 12:57:35 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

:-)


34 posted on 07/09/2015 1:00:05 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Polling: The dark art of .turning a liberal agenda into political reality.)
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To: 9YearLurker

Speaking of democrats, I wonder what Jeb thinks about the tax increase?


35 posted on 07/09/2015 8:34:04 PM PDT by Memphis Moe (Ww)
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To: Memphis Moe

If you are working more harder, then the taxes will only be more harder working for YOU.


36 posted on 07/09/2015 8:35:47 PM PDT by RedHeeler
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