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Buttigieg Floats Pegging Gas Tax to Inflation to Finance Infrastructure Spending
Breitbart ^ | 03/12/2021 | Trent Baker

Posted on 03/12/2021 7:18:47 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Friday, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg addressed President Joe Biden’s next big focus after signing the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, which appears to be passing an infrastructure bill.

Buttigieg pointed out on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that the gas tax has not been changed since 1993, meaning it has not been adjusted for inflation. He suggested it is a “medium-term solution” to pay for infrastructure

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KEYWORDS: buttigieg; floats; gas; tax
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Gas tax and a infrastructure bill next???? Bread costing 50 bucks a loaf here we come.
1 posted on 03/12/2021 7:18:47 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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pegging??? Hmmm....


2 posted on 03/12/2021 7:20:21 AM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: ChicagoConservative27

As the poor - that means blacks - are unfairly impacted by high gasoline costs - Buttfudge’ proposal is racist.


3 posted on 03/12/2021 7:21:05 AM PST by Skywise
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He should know all about pegging...

Whut???


4 posted on 03/12/2021 7:21:09 AM PST by JRios1968 (I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Good! Look, if we’re going full on communist, it should hurt, and hurt a lot.


5 posted on 03/12/2021 7:21:45 AM PST by brownsfan (Term limits! Without term limits, we are doomed.)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

???!!!


6 posted on 03/12/2021 7:22:41 AM PST by GSWarrior
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Pete’s not your standard DC corruptocrat. He’s an activist.


7 posted on 03/12/2021 7:23:07 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election))
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8 posted on 03/12/2021 7:24:36 AM PST by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They just spent $1.9 Trillion Dollars with no way to pay for it.

That kind of money could have rebuilt the Infrastructure with enough money leftover to hand put all those Kung Flu Bribe Checks.

The insanity continues unabated.


9 posted on 03/12/2021 7:24:38 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Don't blame me, I Voted for the guy who actually Won the 2020 Presidential Election...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I guess he thinks that just because he likes taking it in the shorts everyone else does too...


10 posted on 03/12/2021 7:24:55 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Potemkin Joe - Everything about him is fake)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He knows Inflation is about to go Plaid


11 posted on 03/12/2021 7:25:05 AM PST by butlerweave
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“Pegging Gas Tax to Inflation’

Heaping more injury on top of the insult of bad policy.


12 posted on 03/12/2021 7:26:15 AM PST by READINABLUESTATE (CENSORSHIP = VIOLENCE)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

1st, document where the gas tax has gone over the last 25 years and how it was spent.


13 posted on 03/12/2021 7:26:18 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: ChicagoConservative27

.... Wait untill the new VAT Taxes kick in and we pay at least an extra 4-5% for every thing at the checkout counter .....


14 posted on 03/12/2021 7:30:01 AM PST by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

“Buttigieg-Floats-Pegging-Gas” Some words just should never go together in a certain order. Just sayin’.


15 posted on 03/12/2021 7:30:30 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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I’m gonna stock up on some ‘venezooela’ million dollar notes before that starts.


16 posted on 03/12/2021 7:31:33 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He loves pegs...................


17 posted on 03/12/2021 7:48:29 AM PST by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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How does gas tax work?

Is it percentage for every dollar of gas or percentage for every gallon of gas?


18 posted on 03/12/2021 7:54:14 AM PST by DEPcom (Impeach Illegitimate Biden/Harris )
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Its like the students of Fast Times at Ridgemont High are now trying to run the govt.


19 posted on 03/12/2021 7:54:54 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Red Badger

20 posted on 03/12/2021 7:56:38 AM PST by Chode (Ashli Babbitt - #SayHerNAME)
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