Posted on 01/08/2015 1:52:59 PM PST by roses of sharon
A renewed push by some Democrats for an increase in the federal gas tax to replenish the Highway Trust Fund drew a frosty reception Thursday from Speaker John A. Boehner — though the Ohio Republican stopped short of ruling the idea out.
Both Boehner and the top-ranking Democrat in the House, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, were asked Thursday about an increase in the 18.4 cent-per-gallon federal gas tax after the National Republican Campaign Committee sought to make a gas tax increase a political liability for Democrats.
“I’ve never voted to raise the gas tax. Funding the highway bill is critically important, it is a priority for this year. How we will fund it — we’re going to have to work our way through it,” Boehner, R-Ohio, said at his weekly press conference.
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The stimulus money has been ‘built in ‘ every year since they first passed it. Everyone thinks it was a one time thing. It was not.
Didn’t the HOR at the end of last session donate $350 million to their Ukranian war?
A puny $700 billion?
That was barely enough to line the pockets of democrat pals and relatives.
Former ‘Car Czar’ Rattner agrees: Now is the perfect time to raise gas tax
Steven Rattner @SteveRattner · Jan 2
Now is exactly the time to raise the gasoline tax. @SenBobCorker should be commended for his
stance http://nyti.ms/1xnVqxa
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“If something like this is going to be done, now is the time to do it,” said Bob Corker, a Republican senator, who noted that gas prices in his home state of Tennessee fell below $2 a gallon this month. Senator Corker and Senator Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut, unveiled a proposal in June to raise the gas tax by 12 cents a gallon over the next two years and then index further increases to inflation.
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Senator Corker, who has tried to appease deficit hawks by proposing to reduce other taxes in exchange for a rise in the gas tax, said his plan would probably get caught up in negotiations about broader tax reform when the Republicans take control of both houses.
“The leadership is going to want the finance committee to come up with a larger package,” he said, adding that he was open to all sorts of options except a short-term fix. “The one thing I’m going to rail against is to kick the can down the road.”
Exactly right, that was a main point for the stimulus. Also, if more is needed, take the funds the Feds are using to house, educate and medically support all the illegals that Obama has allowed in the country
At least to us, but not our enemies.
“The stimulus money has been ‘built in ‘ every year since they first passed it. Everyone thinks it was a one time thing. It was not.”
^ This + 1. Everyone forgets the fact that the baseline budget was increased 31% in’09. I call it Obola’s slush fund.
Leaving the door open, in communist speak that means he is all in.
Not one dime’s worth of difference.
I agree. Not only is he a RINO, but he sounds like an outright leftist now.
Comimg soon....EBT gas card, paid for by the “whats left of the middle class”.
All that money goes into the general fund. It isn’t protected to be only used for roads.
No more taxes. Taxed Enough Already.
Funding the highway bill is critically important,
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Sure it is. Politicians and their buddies make a fortune from it.
WHAT THE HECK!!!
Since what should be highway funds are being shifted to support mass transit projects, and the ‘Rats think that what’s good for cities is good for the whole country, here’s the compromise to propose:
Raise motor fuel taxes in only those counties (towns in RI, parishes in LA) which have a sufficient density of public transportation route (Let the wonks in DC work out what sufficient density means in detail, but whatever it means, it better include DC, all five boroughs of NYC, and Cook Co., Illinois, and not include any counties Wyoming, the Dakotas, or any counties in Kansas other than Sedgwick (Wichita) and the few in the KC metro area), and leave the rest of us who have to use automobiles because there’s no other viable transportation option, and long-haul truckers who can just contrive not to fill up in the big cities, alone.
My land line phone has more “taxes “ than the base fee.
Prolly save billions.....
Maybe you could earmark some money that might otherwise have gone to fund Obamacare and amnesty, Mr. Speaker.
Oh. Wait.
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