Posted on 11/12/2010 10:41:44 AM PST by Andrea19
...People interested in saving the trust fund should first look to make it more efficient. One measure that would save taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars would be to repeal the Davis-Bacon law. This holdover from the New Deal mandates that federal projects pay workers the “prevailing wage” in a region. When actually implemented, Davis-Bacon ends up inflating usually unionized workers wages, thus, raising the price tag on federal projects.
Repealing this law would bring down construction costs and give the federal government more bang for its buck. Furthermore, to focus on the $36 billion the CBO predicts the highway trust fund will need over the next six years misses the point—our government is currently spending a trillion dollars more than it takes in so nearly every program is technically insolvent.
Instead of lobbying for higher taxes, Simpson, Bowles, and Senator Voinovich should first look for ways to build America’s highways at lower costs. Once new projects are sufficiently scrutinized and deemed necessary, sponsors should look to cut spending from our current three trillion dollar budget and allocate new reductions towards necessary projects.
Read more: http://www.atr.org/simpson-bowles-gas-tax-neither-warranted-a5649#ixzz155qYU7qM
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So now they’re going to tax the gas from our Bowels?
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My mistake...
Erskine Bowles is like Simpson except for being a former Republican ex-senator and useful.
Wow! Oklahoma just shot down SQ744 that had this mandate for school spending. They just reload their poison pills and try to get us to swallow them over and over again.
We need to tax electric cars and trucks as they don’t pay any fuel tax for the miles driven on a highway. Now is that fair?
This is another unintended consequence.
Except Bowles was Clinton’s former Cheif of Staff and is a democrat.
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