Agriculture, Truckers Seek Gas Tax Increase for Infrastructure

(April 8, 2020) - U.S. agriculture and trucking groups are asking Congress to raise the federal gas tax in an upcoming recovery package to cover needed upgrades to infrastructure. American Farm Bureau Federation and American Trucking Associations urged for tax increases to pay for infrastructure upgrades in a letter to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal and the minority leaders of the two panels. The letter states that policy could be implemented without adding a dime to the federal deficit. The 18.4 cents federal gas tax that supports the Highway Trust Fund hasn’t been raised since 1993 but the groups say the coronavirus crisis presents the right time to raise it.


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