Boehner demurred as to whether he and other House Republicans were actively eyeing the tax as a means to keep the trust fund solvent, instead saying Democrats had not been able to get the votes necessary for the increase in the past.
As for whether a gas tax could be part of a compromise deal to lower income taxes, Boehner said, “There’s a lot of ideas. We’ve got to find a way to deal with America’s crumbling infrastructure, and we need to do it in a long term program that is, in fact, funded.”
Boner needs to be TEA Partied in his district ASAP.
FUJB!!
>> We’ve got to find a way to deal with America’s crumbling infrastructure
How about diverting funding now spent on America’s grumbling gibsmedats?
Crumbling infrastructure??
What was the stimulus for?
The Republican speaker “demurred”, after the Conservative base gave him the House and Senate a few months ago.
First question: Is ALL of the current gas tax used to fund highway infrastructure projects or is some of the money siphoned off and used for the general fund and pork barrel projects?
I didn’t read that into what he said.
SHUT THE FRONT DOOR!
Cut 0bamacare to fund the highways.
Seems easy enough.
If they simply required that the current tax was spent only on roads instead of added to the general budget we’d be fine. Instead they want to raise fuel taxes to pay for welfare for illegal immigrants and for sensitivity training to prevent a ‘backlash’ whenever moslems attack civilized people.
Kinda like tobacco..I know the fed's make more than the companies producing the product.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVANQheoRUw
His bbf Obama needs to get more cash for that 1.1 Trillion dollar budget Boehner rammed through the House as a Christmas present.
$700 billion stimilus a few years ago to fix the crumbling infrastructure wasn’t enough?
These jerks pee away money on totally useless government programs. Kill the Department of Education and use 25% of the Money for roads and bridges. 75% back to the tax payers.
Useless government and a waste of time talking about it. Boner is useless.
Eliminate foreign aid, for a start.
With idiots like Bonehead on the republican ticket who needs democrats?
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.”
Leaving the door open, in communist speak that means he is all in.
Not one dime’s worth of difference.
Comimg soon....EBT gas card, paid for by the “whats left of the middle class”.