new federal gas tax, .12 on every gallon!

[Corrente 1st MRB]

hey guys, saw this while going on the internet and read this article and watched the video

Just wanted to hear some opinions

http://www.glennbeck.com/2015/01/06/theres...-tax-than-this/

[J. Hill]

well, If they stop giving money to ILLEGALS, they will have their 100 billion. IDIOTS IN CONGRESS. IDIOT Americans keep electing them. We need term limits because stupid Americans keep electing Crooked Politicians.

[Corrente 1st MRB]

well, If they stop giving money to ILLEGALS, they will have their 100 billion. IDIOTS IN CONGRESS. IDIOT Americans keep electing them. We need term limits because stupid Americans keep electing Crooked Politicians.

So true hill, the tell you the truth these guys shouldn't be paid at all and that should be the new standard.

[Kirkendall 1st MRB]

Oh Glenn. So much hyperbole, so little substance. His argument is that he's accusing the federal government of pissing away all the money for the federal transportation system. The problem is that none of the money that the federal government has been pissing away is money that's set for the federal transportation system. That system has not been given an increase in funding since 1993. The federal government is restricted in bills in what they can earmark the money to go towards. In fact the proposal that Glenn would support, devolution, is what the politicians have been focusing on. They keep going for the money to get for their own state for the money to get invested into the roads by the states decision. That's all fine and good, but the states end up going different ways with that money than what they're supposed to. Nowadays, the states get about half their funding for roads and highways from the feds.

Sadly, poor management leaves very little money for the transportation. the $.12 gas hike has plenty of bipartisan support on the aisle, and most of the country supports it as long as the funds are earmarked for improving roads and highways. All of what Glenn goes into in his argument is not pertinent to the issue at hand, and instead he's completely fearmongering. A twelve cent gas tax hike is not going to cause the end of times. He's acting like it will. In fact, he's pulling other countries problems into our own taxes. Inflation has been and will continue to affect our economy. The federal transportation system is horribly out paced by the inflation in the economy. It's been 20 years since its last funding change. Clinton or Bush should've increased funding to the fed transportation. Neither did and it falls to the current administration. I disagree with Obama's toll proposal, but I think the roads do need additional funding. With the recent gas surplus, now is the ideal time to rework the current gas tax.

Personally, I'd love for the funding to go full devolution so the states get all of the money for road funding. Let's see Illinois go even more corrupt. Then they wouldn't have an excuse for the abysmal highway system anywhere west of Chicago. They even toll their bloody roads and have two lane highways on major thoroughfares. Two lane highways. Stuck behind semis for an entire drive.

[Gilmore 1st MRB]

Couldn't agree more Kirkendall. The fear mongering has to stop at the base level. Glenn isn't the first or the last person to do it. But, as we can clearly see he does it well. CT already has it's tax on gas set at .70 per gallon(rough estimate last time I checked) and so I am not 100% in on the new hike. However, there are plenty of roads here that could surely benefit from having them paved. With that being said, as long as they do not concentrate on main roads and start on side streets again I would definitely be in favor of it.

[T. Brown 1st MRB]

Oh Glenn. So much hyperbole, so little substance.

Beck should get this tattooed on his forehead, this is his life in a sentence.