Um, We’re Gonna Need Some More of Your Money
July 20th, 2008 at 3:40 pm by CrankyVia Stop the ACLU, we learn that the Democrats plan in helping with your pain at the pump.
Now, lawmakers quietly are talking about raising fuel taxes by a dime from the current 18.4 cents a gallon on gasoline and 24.3 cents on diesel fuel. …
Oberstar, D-Minn., said his committee is working on the next long-term highway bill. He estimated it will take between $450 billion and $500 billion over six years to address safety and congestion issues with highways, bridges and transit systems.
Who says that Congress can’t accomplish anything?
As Ed Morrissey at Hot Air points out, there may be another way to get the money needed for highway construction projects:
Pork is the cholesterol of infrastructure. Whenever Congress attempts to address legitimate infrastructure needs, it signals open season on the taxpayers. In that bill last year, over $8 billion got spent on earmarks — the same amount that Congress says will be the shortfall this year for transportation needs, and the deficit they need to erase by raising the gas tax.
As always, you can make yourself sick to the stomach by looking at that Citizens Against Government Waste’s Earmark database.
July 20th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Sounds like a great plan to me…especially if we can throw another 5 cents per gallon for government purchase carbon credits to combat the warming that will be caused by all of the extra driving by the people who will use these new roads.