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   > The 18.4 cent-per-gallon federal gas tax has not increased since 1993.   
   > Because of inflation, the revenue has about one-third less purchasing   
   > power than it did when the tax was last raised, according to a January   
   > 2022 report from the federal Government Accountability Office.   
   >   
   > In that report, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates the   
   > increasing gap between projected fuel tax revenues and federal highway   
   > spending will require $191 billion in additional funding to maintain   
   > current spending levels, plus inflation from fiscal years 2022 through   
   > 2031.   
   >   
   > In November 2021, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act allowed   
   > for the transfer of $118 billion in general revenue to the Highway   
   > Trust Fund, which will cover the estimated revenue shortfalls through   
   > at least 2026. While this funding will cover a portion of the estimated   
   > shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund, this transfer represents a one-   
   > time infusion of funding and is not a sustainable long-term source of   
   > revenues, the CBO report said.   
   >   
   > The CBO has been telling Congress since 2007 that it must pass a   
   > sustainable funding solution for maintaining the nation’s highways.   
   >   
   > In 2015, the U.S. Department of Transportation established the Surface   
   > Transportation System Funding Alternatives program to provide grants to   
   > states to explore the feasibility of user-based alternative funding   
   > mechanisms. That is what funded numerous studies across the country.   
   >   
   > “The Federal Highway Administration is working diligently in response   
   > to Congress’s directive that we implement programs to better understand   
   > the full range of factors involved in implementing a mileage-based user   
   > fee, including public acceptance and administrative feasibility,” a   
   > spokesperson for the Federal Highway Administration told The Epoch   
   > Times.   
   >   
   > --   
   > Let's go Brandon!   
   >   
   User Based road tax is already in progress as per the weight tax on   
   TRUCKS and Trailers and the higher cost per axle to use the Toll Roads.   
      
   And the more gas you use or Electric to recharge the more gas tax or   
   utility tax you pay so a car that gets lousy mileage (more rubber on the   
   roads or bigger engine) costs more to operate as you pay the tax on the   
   items to keep your vehicle driving another mile, and the more miles you   
   drive the more you pay in taxes.   
      
   So what they want is DOUBLE TAXATION to keep you poor and them wealthy   
   as they steal and barter your tax dollars to benefit themselves.   
      
   You know like Joe Biden did when he threatened to withhold a $Billion   
   tax dollars just to get a prosecutor fired because he was investigating   
   the Corruption that Hunter Biden and now we know also Joe (The BIG GUY)   
   Biden were skimming from.   
      
   They pass a thousand times more tax laws than they need to collect the   
   revenue to run the NATION... and they do that to fund their corruption.-   
      
      
      
      
   -Reality Matters-   
      
      
      
      
   https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V   
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   Raise taxes and it will STAGNATE THE ECONOMY and the realized "REVENUE"   
   will decrease as the economy falls into Depression.   
      
   If less money is being spent or invested, there is less income from   
   economic activity that can be taxed.   
      
   The secret sauce isn't in higher taxes, it's in increased economic   
   activity.  And to achieve more economic activity, the government has to   
   be less greedy. And quit stealing from the Private Sector Economy.   
      
   Raising taxes is NOT a solution for failing GDP growth... economic   
   activity creates added "REVENUE" raising taxes created less GDP GROWTH   
   which results in less actual REVENUE for the U.S. Treasury.   
      
   Taxes are a way to collect the Revenue NOT create it.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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