The political vision of a summer gas tax holiday died a quick death in Congress, losing to a view that federal excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel — far from dropping — will have to go up if they go anywhere.
Despite calls from the presidential campaign trail for a Memorial Day-to-Labor Day tax freeze, lawmakers quickly concluded — with a prod from the construction industry — that having $9 billion less to spend on highways could create a pre-election specter of thousands of lost jobs.
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. -Fox News
If us peasants can’t afford gas as it is, how is another hike at the gas pump going to keep the highway trust fund out of the red?
Government collects more tax on a gallon of gas than the oil companies make in profit, yet we see who Congress points the finger of blame at at. I didn’t know that colleges offered degrees in hypocrisy, but it appears that this is the degree that is required to get a job at the Capitol Building.
It was Democrat Bill Clinton who claimed to “feel your pain.” It is now the Democrat-controlled Congress who inflicts it.
