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Pelosi rejects gas tax to cover infrastructure costs
TheHill ^ | 06/17/2021 | Mike Lillis

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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KEYWORDS: gas; infrastructure; pelosi; tax
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To: ameribbean expat

Pennsylvania is not far behind with 75 cents a gallon federal and state tax. I think they are second in the country.


21 posted on 06/17/2021 12:48:08 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 )
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To: rktman

Just a ploy to protect her nephew against the CA Gov. recall.

After that’s over, gas taxes up the wazoo!


22 posted on 06/17/2021 2:52:14 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They’re not going to raise the gas tax, they’re going to add on a mileage tax.


23 posted on 06/17/2021 4:38:55 PM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: ETCM

You can tell the second you enter or leave California.....the road changes.


24 posted on 06/18/2021 6:36:06 AM PDT by sheana
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