ATA has been urging the federal government to raise fuel taxes to provide the money necessary to expand and repair the nation’s infrastructure.
So far, these calls have fallen mostly on deaf ears, as politicians in Washington fail to display the will to do what is right, choosing instead to do what is politically acceptable.
It’s just not easy to propose a higher tax these days, even when that tax revenue would be put to good use. What results from that failure is just the kind of misguided plan that Virginia now has proposed, and to which FHWA has given preliminary approval.