As long as the money goes to roads, sure. It’s better than an income tax.
On the pro side, it’s been a long time since it was increased last. The sums don’t pay for nearly as much road as they once did, because they haven’t increased with inflation, but the price of paving and building had. Also, better average gas mileage means that cars pay less tax per mile driven than ever. And we’d get some more roads built.
Cons: it’s a dang tax hike, a regressive one, that would make everything shipped by road more expensive and push up inflation rates, too. It would probably completely unwind the benefit of the recent tax cut for the middle class.
Add the words on imported oil only, and I’m okay with it.
It won’t..
lets cut spending on things the feds should NOT be doing and get back to what the constitution requires the feds to do and let states handle the rest, see how that goes first...
oh wait..
That would include roads.
end the federal gas tax.
And that’s why I’m opposed to it. It will be sold as “build new roads” but only a tiny fraction will actually go to lane miles.