Hershey, Pa. — A gas tax increase ain’t happening. No way, no how.
That was the message from Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) to reporters on Thursday at the congressional Republican retreat in this small Pennsylvania town.
“No,” he said. “I don’t see us passing — we won’t pass a gas tax increase.”
The unequivocal remarks by Ryan, who chairs the tax-writing Ways & Means Committee, quash hopes for the deeply tax-averse House to pass a gasoline tax increase as a mechanism to pay for a long-term highway funding bill.
The idea has enjoyed growing support lately with gas prices at historic lows, including from some Republicans like Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker.
Bridges will be repaired via dynamic scoring.
Bridges will be repaired as they collapse. Hey, you can’t repair the roof when it is raining and you don’t need to repair it when the sun is shining. As for the roads, potholes are natures’ way of dynamically testing automotive suspension design engineering. As we know American engineers are the best in the world, so potholes, meh!
We’re paying less than two dollars for gas now.
A gas tax?
What about the prices we were paying before? All these explanations are suspect.
But if you call it a user fee…
To build/repair our roads, bridges and mass transpo.