"Donald Trump is looking to do the same here in the United States. It won’t generate the same kind of movement — American politics are not as combustible as their French counterpart — but it’s just as stupid here as it was there. The policy is raising taxes on gasoline. Trump is considering a 25-cent per-gallon tax that would fund infrastructure projects"
"It would be impossible to avoid the costs that a gas tax would impose, which would fall disproportionately on the people Trump claims to serve. And it would do so at a time when gas prices are already rising quickly"
"If it wasn’t clear already, a gas tax like this makes Trump’s nationalist populism even more of a fraud. Trump announces an end to America’s war in Syria, and the CIA and DOD announce that it will continue. He announces the creation of a worker’s party, and he rewards bosses and asset-rich entrepreneurs instead. He says he will fight for the forgotten American, and then he sticks those Americans with the bill for his infrastructure dreams. Trump’s enemies — Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg, and the leading Democrats — should be laughing at their good fortunes. Those fortunes are growing by the day."
...ppffftttt.... good luck on that happening.... I just read 2 minutes ago that Tucker Carlson is denouncing Trump as
using this out..... to not go through an "un-wanted" 2-nd term... pppffftttt.... he and Ann Coulter...pppfffttttt...
Interesting.
We heard about this over a year ago too:
The news triggers a backlash from anti-tax conservatives.
02/14/2018https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/14/trump-gas-tax-409647
Trump's support came just two days after the White House released a long-awaited, $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan that didn't endorse such a politically perilous increase, and less than two months after he signed a mammoth tax code overhaul that would have provided cover for lawmakers supporting it. The last president to hike the 18.4-cents-per-gallon federal gas tax was Bill Clinton in 1993, a year before Democrats lost both chambers of Congress in a crushing midterm defeat.
A 25-cent hike phased in over five years would generate an additional $375 billion over the next 10 years, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which backs the idea.
Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), one of several lawmakers of parties who attended the meeting, confirmed that Trump had indeed "offered his support for raising the gas and diesel tax by 25 cents a gallon and dedicating that money to improve our roads, highways, and bridges."
Carper added that Trump "came back to the idea of a 25 cent increase several times throughout the meeting," and that he "even offered to help provide the leadership necessary so that we could do something that has proven difficult in the past.”
"President Trump has not made the funding issue any easier by steadfastly refusing to talk about any new tax. That effectively leaves the issue up to a deeply divided Congress. Until lawmakers can find a way to agree on some form of new revenue, don’t count on a major infrastructure bill anytime soon. And watch those potholes."
After driving over 1,000 miles between here and Detroit round trip at the end of last month, I have never driven on roads in such horrible shape. Massive, widespread potholes in southeast Michigan and northeast Indiana, the likes of which I've never experienced to that extent before. Northwest Ohio was not quite as bad but maybe the 100 mile stretch of highway I drove on was one of the better ones.
https://taxfoundation.org/state-gas-tax-rates-july-2018/
