Congressman DeFazio announces plans to pay for roads and bridges
Congressman DeFazio announces plans to pay for roads and bridges
By Reed Black
Land Line Now Magazine
June 16, 2014
Last week, U.S. Rep Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., announced his plan for paying for roads and bridges.
It calls for eliminating the gas tax at the pump and taxing oil at the refinery level instead. The oil tax would be indexed to increase with inflation, and the oil companies could pass along the cost of the tax to consumers.
DeFazio says the 24-cent federal tax on diesel would remain, but would be indexed so that truckers would not pay a disproportionate share.
DeFazio told “Land Line Now” on Sirius XM that the alternative to his plan is a nation of toll roads.