Thompson Introduces No Tolls Bill
1490 NewsBlogU.S. Representative Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson, R-Pa., announced today that he has introduced legislation that would prohibit the tolling of federal highways, including Interstate 80 in Pennsylvania. Thompson issued the following statement on the introduction of the Keeping America’s Freeway’s Free Act (KAFFA):
“The American people currently pay for our Interstates through gas taxes, the Highway Trust Fund, and apportionment taxes on trucks hauling goods. Tolling the Interstate Highway System would not only be a double tax on the American people, but a dangerous step toward slowing the economic growth of Pennsylvania and the entire country during these trying times.
“Tolls are taxes, plain and simple. As a Member of the House Small Business Committee, the last thing small business owners and hard working families along the I-80 corridor need is another tax when some are struggling to heat their homes and put gasoline in their tanks. More...
5 comments:
You are so right Glenn...do not forget truck owners also pay Fed form 2290 which is heavy highway use tax paid every single year based on the weight of every single truck in your fleet!
Tax, Tax, Tax...where in the heck does all this darn tax money go?
isn't there much more important things to fight for in this country?
Over taxing the hard working people is important!
You go Glen.
No need for that tax now that the stimulus package includes big bucks to build roads.
I don't know where the money goes, but if we don't know, we won't miss it.
Well.....5 million of it is going into the Lumbermans museum....
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