Posted on 12/08/2014 5:13:11 PM PST by Theoria
Gasoline prices are at their lowest level in four years. The price at the pump in many states is almost a full dollar cheaper than it was last spring.
So some politicians think this is a good time to raise gasoline taxes. Several states are tired of waiting for Congress to fix the federal highway trust fund, so they're considering raising gas taxes themselves to address their crumbling roads.
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is trying to sell that state's legislators — especially those in his own Republican party — on raising the state's motor fuel tax to fund long neglected infrastructure needs.
"Do you know of anyone who says we have good roads in this state? Nobody," said Snyder at a recent speaking engagement after touring a crumbling retaining wall along the Lodge Freeway in Detroit.
Snyder is calling on lawmakers to roughly double Michigan's gas tax over time, to raise more than $1 billion.
"The money I'm talking about is to get us to fair to good roads. They're not even going to be great roads, folks. We can't afford to have great roads in this state given what we need to invest," he continued.
Snyder is one of a growing number of Republicans across the country who see the need to spend big to improve infrastructure, and who are looking to increase gas taxes to pay for it.
"There's kind of been a switch that's been flipped," says Carl Davis, a senior analyst with the nonprofit Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
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NOTE TO CONGRESS....
NO NEW TAXES, READ MY LIP...NO NEW TAXES...
IF THIS CONGRESS RAISES THE GAS TAX..THEY WILL ALL BE LOOKING FOR NEW JOBS...
PEOPLE ARE TOTALLY FED UP WITH TAXES..AND EVERY TIME THEY GET A NEW TAX THEY WASTE IT...NO MORE MONEY FROM TAX PAYERS..
Give us a detailed accounting of the last 20 years' worth of where the gas tax revenue was spent, and if you survive the tar and feathers, we can BS some more...
These bastards are spending TRILLIONS each year and ITS NEVER ENOUGH!
Lying sacks of crap. We already pay taes on gasolin, tires, use of some roads, vehicle inspections etc. That money was used as must tax dollas are used to buy votes to try and win elections. It is never used for what it was collected for. It will not be this time either.........
Impeach all of them. We ALREADY PAY TAXES for “the roads”
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