[Olog-hai]

I wonder how that poll was worded with respect to tolled roads. You don’t grant fuel tax breaks to drivers for using toll roads, of course they will oppose them.

[rktman]

Well duh. With all those ‘lectric cars on the road, we’ll just have to raise the gas tax on those evil, earth killin’ gas powered machines then. That wasn’t too hard to figure out. Maybe after the (s)elections.

[thackney]

I would not protest raising in the gasoline tax AFTER the use of the funds was limited to roads and not unrelated expenses like bike paths and parks.

[Wolfie]

Desginate them as Iraqi highways. Then we’ll rebuild them.

[rdcbn]

We already have a perfectly fine way to fund highway and road projects.

It’s called the gas and diesel tax. The various government taxes on a gallon of fuel are large enough that that they make more revenue on a gallon of gas than the oil companies make profits.

These tax revenues were intended for road expansion and upkeep projects but they have been diverted by politicians and placed in the generals funds to be wasted and squandered like the rest of our tax dollars.

Now that the fuel tax highway funds have been effectively stolen by politicians , they want more taxes to fund highway projects

[Moonman62]

Get rid of the graft and over-regulation, then there will be more than enough money.

[Envisioning]

I thought there was already an $800 billion stimulus for this a couple of years ago? WTF happened to that money?

TEA - "taxed enough already"!!!!

[puppypusher]

Let the individual states pay for the construction and maintenance of their own Roads,Bridges and highways.Keep the Feds out of it.

[capydick]

How much is spent on the bloated bureaucracies running this system? Their health care, their pensions, the do nothing jobs that get filled with cronies?

I'll bet half of the current taxes paid don't even see a road or a highway

[Buckeye McFrog]

“Tax All Foreigners Living Abroad” always gets numbers in the high 70’s.

[Wuli]

To get Americans to support any fuel tax increases, the states have to be responsible alone for more of the share than they are. That is the only way the states can be goaded by the road using public to get their own priorities straight, to cut out the fat, the desirable and get the necessary done and on time and for the best price.

As long as states can mismanage their own road priorities and try to use the federal highway funds as a slush fund for every non-priority road project and every project other than roads, it is only right that voters don’t want to give them more funds.

[1010RD]

End Davis-Bacon and the false prevailing wage laws.