Wrong. If roads and bridges truly need to be built and repaired, the money has to come from somewhere. Its best to raise the money from the users of these facilities, rather than from those who walk to work, little old ladies without cars, families with one car rather than three, etc. Raising the funds from users also discourages the overuse of these facilities that would occur if users think that that their use bears no costs. The fact that revenue from gas taxes is sometimes wasted or spent for non-transportation purposes has no bearing on the tax per se.
If desperately needed (fed gas tax), strong limitations and a reduction in income tax.
but still no- income taxes would be raised and the fed tax would increase and expand for the crises du joir.
How about we put an end to the endless and senseless wars in the ME and use that money for infrastructure?
How about slapping taxes/fees on money that illegals wire back to their native country?
Did you sleep through Econ 101?
We already pay a federal tax on gasoline. The United States federal excise tax on gasoline is 18.4 cents per gallon and 24.4 cents per gallon for diesel fuel. In 2014 Federal fuel taxes raised $35.2 billion, with $25.0 billion raised from gasoline taxes and $10.2 billion raised from taxes on diesel and special motor fuels.
The proposal to raise the "gasoline" tax by 30 cents per gallon would increase the federal governments take by over $43 billion per year (based on 2014 data - probably higher using current data). FYI - the 2015 federal transportation budget was 72.4 billion. In addition, there are countless billions of dollars charged by each state to supposedly fund individual state DOT budgets. For example, the highest amount is Pennsylvania, which adds on 58.7 cents per gallon. That's insane. The lowest state is Alaska at 14.65 cents.
Roads and bridges that need to be built. Takes years and years to complete and always over budget.