Posted on 06/17/2021 9:38:14 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Pelosi rejects gas tax to cover infrastructure costs © Greg Nash Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that she opposes an increase in the gas tax as a way to pay for new infrastructure projects, joining other liberals in her caucus in rejecting a potential provision of a nascent public works package being negotiated in the Senate.
"I'm not even sure if it's in, but one thing they were going to do was expand the gas tax. I would not be for that," Pelosi told reporters in the Capitol.
Among the offset provisions floated by a group of bipartisan senators scrambling for an infrastructure agreement is an increase in the gas tax, which was last raised in 1993. The law that did so did not provide automatic inflationary increases.
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Pennsylvania is not far behind with 75 cents a gallon federal and state tax. I think they are second in the country.
Just a ploy to protect her nephew against the CA Gov. recall.
After that’s over, gas taxes up the wazoo!
They’re not going to raise the gas tax, they’re going to add on a mileage tax.
You can tell the second you enter or leave California.....the road changes.
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