Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Gas Tax

A Golden Opportunity for Congress to Avoid the Transportation “Fiscal Cliff”

By Tanya Snyder | May 1, 2013 | No Comments

MAP-21 expires in a year and five months. When it does, if lawmakers haven’t already found a solution to the “transportation fiscal cliff,” they’ll have to do one of three things, according to a report issued last week by the Congressional Budget Office [PDF]: Transfer $14 billion more in general funds Raise the gas tax […]

Congress Indulges in Crazy Talk About De-Funding Transit and Taxing Bikes

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 26, 2013 | 2 Comments

The House is a dangerous place these days. You want to have a fruitful conversation about how to solve the transportation funding crisis and you end up ruminating about whether to tax bikes. That’s what happened to Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR). He requested that the Budget Committee hold a hearing on the impending insolvency of […]

In Colorado, a Big Legal Victory for Active Transportation Funding

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 25, 2013 | 3 Comments

Believe it or not, in many U.S. states one of the biggest obstacles to active transportation is in the constitution. Embedded in the constitutions of 22 U.S. states are bans on spending gas tax revenues and/or vehicle registration fees on anything but highways and bridges. That means no matter how much practical value a sidewalk, busway, […]

No Surprise Here: Drivers Don’t Want to Pay Higher Gas Taxes

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 23, 2013 | 5 Comments

Just last month, the American Society of Civil Engineers gave U.S. infrastructure another dismal grade and every media outlet and lawmaker in the country, it seemed, bellyached about how we need to invest more. And then Gallup asked Americans if they’d be willing to raise the gas tax by 20 cents a gallon. The answer […]

Will an Upcoming Tax Reform Finally Be the Place to Hike the Gas Tax?

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 14, 2013 | 1 Comment

Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget proposal has gotten a conversation going about a tax code rewrite. Rep. Dave Camp, head of the Ways and Means Committee, recently put out a small business proposal that included some tax reform, and he’s pledged to pursue more reforms this year. His committee has already set up 11 bipartisan working […]

Shuster Pre-empts Devolutionists With Defense of Federal Role

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 8, 2013 | 3 Comments

New House Transportation Committee Chair Bill Shuster (R-PA) clearly knows he’s got some devolutionist conservatives in his caucus (and on his committee). While many Republicans would like to see the federal government get out of the business of infrastructure and just let the states raise and spend their own money, Shuster has always been clear […]

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