ANY tax or tax increase at the time of recovering from a major recession would be a fatal mistake.
Besides that, I wonder how those of you who would not only support paying an increase at the pump for your daily drive to and from work, but also the increase in prices for goods at the store as a result of the increase in taxes paid into the black hole (DC) for the fuel the truckers use to deliver those goods.
About 10% of this future money paid in that tax would actually make it into the projects intended for. The rest would be absorbed into the pockets of the scum that inhabit the noor loch, that being Washington DC.
Eliminate some of the useless departments in that scum hole and use that money towards those projects. The rest can be obtained through the elimination of foreign grants and through excise taxes from unfair imports.
If higher gas taxes generated better infrastructure, California roads would be some of the best in the nation.
Unnamed sources....and CNBC ain’t any better a source than Axios
I really really really don’t want to pay $4/gal plus tolls.
Make sure those building the roads are accountable for work that needs to be done over in a week and this wouldn’t be a necessary discussion.
A tax cut followed by increases—no sense here.
NOOOOO
We consume 145 billion gallons of gas every year which has an average tax of 50 cents (fed/state). That’s more than enough to repaved the entire interstate highway system EVERY YEAR.
https://www.quora.com/How-much-would-it-cost-to-repave-all-of-the-interstates-in-the-U-S
WHERE IS ALL THAT MONEY GOING THEN TALK TO ME ABOUT NEEDING MORE.
Didn’t 0bamie get money for that? What happened? At least we get the benefit for infrastructure, where as obama gave the money to other sourses in one way or another. Did we benefit?
Terrible idea,Don. Your Democrat side is showing. Try again.
How about a 5% “fee” on remittances to Mexico instead?
I bet this is fake news.
No. Cut welfare, eat, section 8 then cut SS and Medicare. The handouts have to stop period.
If Trump does this, he better not even think about running in 2020. Gas already too high and hurting people. Any relief from his tax cut will be wiped out at the pump.
Let the president “drill baby drill.”
When he gets gasoline down to $1.00 per gallon, then he can add his 25 cents a gallon tax. Otherwise, no.
Trump’s worst idea yet! Will he veto a stand-alone DACA bill that Congress desperately wants?
Reportedly? Isn’t that what NY Slimes and Washington Compost always “report”?
I’ll withhold judgement until I see it straight from him instead of fake news.
Not me, thank you.
The gas tax is regressive and especially foul in that it hits hardest the working poor.
My Cavalier takes 15 gallons every 10 days or so.
15 x .25 = $3.75 x 3 = $11.25 x 12 months = $135/yr
Maybe
Funnel any infrastructure money directly to the states.