While Congress and the president spin their wheels about infrastructure spending, the states are not waiting for them. Is this by design? Here is an update:
California: The gastax will rise by 5.6 ...
July 12, 2019 – The Washington Post Editorial Board called on Congress to increase the federal user fee on gallons of gasoline to support infrastructure. The column suggests that there may be growing public ...
July 3, 2019– There is a bit of fireworks this 4th of July in Ohio. A 10.5-cent and 19-cent statewide jump in price for gas and diesel fuel, respectively, went into effect thanks to a tax increase contained ...
... n, according to a report on WWMT. Standing under a bridge along U.S. Route 131, Whitmer again pushed her gas-tax proposal, calling the state's bridge system critical. "Michiganders are known for innov ...
... gasoline by five cents a year over five years. Blumenauer, a featured speaker at the Highway Materials Group’s recent Infrastructure Week press conference, introduced the legislation one day before President ...
May 3, 2019 – According to a report on The Hill, a republican legislator is calling for the doubling of the federal gastax and airline fees in order to pay for the $2 trillion infrastructure package being ...
March 11, 2019 – Gas is a hot topic in Ohio. The Ohio House has passed a transportation budget bill that includes increases in the state’s gas and diesel taxes to help maintain roads and bridges. The House ...
Feb. 11, 2019– For the first time in a long time, talk about increasing the gastax is heating up, and an increase could become a reality. According to a report on Politico, at least one Republican wants ...
Every year, U.S. Chamber President and CEO Tom Donohue outlines the top challenges facing the business community and lays out the U.S. Chamber’s policy priorities for the year. Infrastructure was front ...
Ninety-six percent of state lawmakers who voted in favor of a gastax increase and faced reelection in 2018 primaries will advance to the Nov. 6 general election, according to new data from the American ...
July 17, 2018 – Last year in California, legislators enacted a 12-cents-per-gal. gastax hike to boost funding to repair California’s decaying roads and bridges. But now, Proposition 6, which will be on ...
Industry organizations have been quietly advocating for an increase in the gasoline sales tax – aka user fees – for a long time. After all, it has not been raised since 1993. The Highway Trust Fund is ...
Rep. Bill Shuster (R-Pa.), chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, brought up the importance of raising the federal user fee on gasoline at a recent GOP retreat in West Virginia. ...
Oct. 26, 2017 – The White House may back the first hike in the federal gasoline tax in decades in order to pay for President Trump’s $1 trillion infrastructure package. Trump’s economic adviser Gary Cohn ...
May 8, 2017 – Republicans are balking over President Trump’s openness to raising the federal gastax to help pay for U.S. roads and highways – a politically fraught issue that lawmakers have avoided for ...
May 3, 2017 – A sweeping Republican proposal to fund transportation and cut taxes would flatten income tax rates, lower the gas tax and raise new funding for roads by applying the sales tax to gasoline, ...
May 1, 2017 – President Donald Trump said he’s willing to raise the U.S. gastax to fund infrastructure development and called the tax-overhaul plan he released last week the beginning of negotiations. ...
Legislators in four states – Tennessee, Montana, California and Indiana – have voted to increase their state gastax to support new transportation improvements. The respective governors of each state are ...
Lawmakers in New Jersey approved a 23 cents-a-gallon increase on gasoline in order to pay for much-needed transportation projects and end a statewide construction freeze. It is the first increase in taxes ...
... a replacement for the gastax.
Sept. 6, 2016 – With $14.2 million in grants awarded to seven states, The Federal Highway Administration has started to roll out its small FAST Act-funded program to ...
Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) has introduced the Tax Relief And #FixTheTrustFund For Infrastructure Certainty Act (TRAFFIC), which would raise the country’s gasoline and diesel taxes, and also extend and expand ...
... CEO Pete Ruane in a letter to House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and the committee’s Ranking Democrat Sander Levin (Mich.).
Ruane noted that while the federal gas and diesel excise ...
Increasing the gastax does not result in a commensurate penny-to-penny increase in the retail price motorists pay at the pump, a study of the market impacts of five state gas tax increases enacted in ...
New research conducted by the Transportation Investment Advocacy Center (TIAC) has found that 18 states and the District of Columbia are using variable-rate gasoline taxes to generate revenue to help finance ...
... ans who understand that it is vitally important that we rebuild our crumbling infrastructure,” he said.
The incoming Republican leader of the Senate Transportation Committee said a gastax increase i ...