The money for infrastructure should be coming out of the incomes of the top 1%, who have benefited so much in recent decades, not from ordinary drivers who are mostly struggling. Many Americans are struggling to keep a car on the road with the high cost of gas, taxes, more and higher tolls, insurance and excessive fines and overzealous enforcement of petty traffic laws for the purpose of collecting revenue.
Raising the gas tax is anti-populist. This is not the direction we want to go in if we want to do well in 2018 and 2020.
Maybe the trick is that they will pass the tax hike after the election is over in a lame duck session at the end of this election year 2018.