Senators propose 12-cent gas tax increase

Associated Press ^ | Jun 18, 2014 12:17 PM EDT | Joan Lowy

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

And how much have the sponsors and the rest of the political thieves stolen from the highway trust fund for other purposes?

Um...all of it.

[circlecity]

So, they want to increase taxes on every American who drives but tell us they will offset that with Federal tax cuts which only benefit the wealthy elite.

[SoFloFreeper]

Nope. Government gets enough money. Cut back on the welfare state to pay for roads.

[jiggyboy]

Ah but that’s why it’s all excellent, dear taxpayer. Because we spent it all, which apparently was the correct amount!

[Cowboy Bob]

There are always a few Republicans willing to join the Democrats and stab America in the back. Corker has been a BIG disappointment,

[Olog-hai]

Very sane proposal. If only it would be concurrent with a rollback of utterly unnecessary regulations and corporate taxation too.

[Phillyred]

Notice the total disinterest by the media? We never heard the end of it when Bush was in office. Look at this article from 2007. Prices have more than doubled since then!!! Gas Industry Accused of Price Gouging

[a fool in paradise]

Add licensing costs to the electric cars that aren’t paying THEIR FAIR SHARE of highway funds.

[TheDon]

Elites are all for it.
The middle and lower classes, not so much.
Me thinks the next American Revolution will have more of a French Revolution flavor to it, if you know what I mean...

[1Old Pro]

Don’t they realize that Obama’s lack of policy in Iraq will add 12cents times 10 to gas prices causing another energy crisis?

[TexasCajun]

Another Republican acting like a Democrat!

[Olog-hai]

If that’s true, then the country will plunge further left.

[cuban leaf]

...and then index the taxes to keep pace with inflation.

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The money quote.

[cableguymn]

Pubs should come out with a plan to lower it 20 cents and settle for a 10 cent reduction.

[Organic Panic]

And the push for hybrids and electric cars??? What taxes will they pay???

And I like the bovine excrement that they will cut taxes elsewhere when these highway taxes are raised. Yeah, sure they will.

[rktman]

Skyrocket anyone?

[StormEye]

"The plan offered by Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and Bob Corker, R-Tenn., would raise the 18.4-cents-a-gallon federal gas tax and 24.4-cents-a-gallon diesel tax by 12 cents each over the next two years, and then index the taxes to keep pace with inflation."

Oh gee, thanks a million Bob Corker, RINO (aka, Democrat/Obama Collaborator) - Tenn.

WE WON'T FORGET!

[cyclotic]

Hope the two don’t find out what the vultures shoved through in MD. A 6% SALES tax of fuel.

Absolutely ZERO incentive to find ways to lower gas cost.

[Starstruck]

Good idea. It’s not like the fiasco in the Middle East is going to cause prices to skyrocket.

[pogo101]

What are the other cuts? I don't understand, even after I read the linked full article:

The six expired tax breaks identified by the senators as possible offsets for fuel tax increases are a research and development tax credit, certain expensing by small businesses, the state and local sales tax deduction, increasing employer-provided transit benefits to the same level as parking benefits, a deduction for spending by teachers on classroom supplies, and an increased deduction for land conservation and easement donations.

The only one of those I sufficiently understand is the transit/commuter benefit (re-)increase.