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Lawmakers Score Conservative Bona Fides By Attacking Efficient Transport

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 19, 2013 | No Comments

Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Congressman Tom Graves (R-Georgia) have introduced a bill to eliminate federal involvement in transportation policy, which would spell disaster for funding that supports transit, biking, and walking. A largely symbolic vote in favor of “devolution” will allow Republican members of Congress to demonstrate their conservative bona fides. The Transportation Empowerment […]

Why You Should Be Angry About CA’s “Highest Gas Tax in the Country”

By Damien Newton | Jul 1, 2013 | 22 Comments

I know it’s tempting to gloat. Today, newspaper headlines are blaring the news that with the newest increase in the state’s gas tax, that California now has the highest gas tax in the country. As I said, I know it’s tempting. But, it’s the result of bad policy. None of the money from that increased […]

Sure, Leave Gas Tax Collection to Liberal Tax-and-Spend States Like Georgia

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 16, 2011 | No Comments

One nay-sayer argument against greater federal spending for transportation goes like this: “Too many faceless bureaucrats in Washington have too much control over how states spend their money. Let states raise their own revenues and spend them as they wish.” Besides, they say, the national government is broke. There’s no more money to spend on […]

Without Adequate Federal Funding, Will States Raise Their Own Gas Taxes?

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 26, 2011 | No Comments

Connecticut state senators just voted to increase the state gas tax by three cents. The New Hampshire House Speaker has proposed cutting theirs by five cents – but only for two months, to help drivers bear the pain of high gas prices. In Georgia, the gas tax jumps every time gas prices go up by […]

Forty Transportation Experts, One Message

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 31, 2011 | No Comments

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee just spent two days listening to 40 experts from different aspects of the transportation sector and advocacy community, from engineers to environmentalists to the Tea Party. Each person had just four minutes to speak and they crammed as much as they could into their time: observations, demands, recommendations for […]

Boxer Pushes LaHood on Financing for Transportation

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 11, 2011 | No Comments

Senator Barbara Boxer got down to brass tacks on transportation funding in a committee hearing yesterday, even as DOT Secretary Ray LaHood remained vague on how to pay for the president’s ambitious proposal. Boxer said she’s not in favor of raising the gas tax, but she’d like it to be indexed to inflation. “We don’t […]

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