Raising Taxes To Fund Infrastructure

This little tid bit while Congress can’t figure out how to pass a $500 billion transportation bill:

Then there’s the fact the Americans are fully willing to pay more taxes to fund infrastructure investment. In a recent poll by GOP pollster Frank Luntz, a stunning 81 percent of people said that would pay higher taxes to repair and upgrade our infrastructure. But for some reason our government doesn’t want to take us up on it. Raising the gas tax is a perfectly realistic policy choice now with pump prices still relatively cheap. At higher levels, we won’t have this option. Options are blessings — let’s not waste this one.

source: The Infrastructurist, A Solution: Raise the &%#$ing Gas Tax Already, by Jebediah Reed 6/19/2009