Tag: Highway Trust Fund

Infrastructure Dangers Ahead

Yuval Levin · January 6, 2017 7:00 am

CBO detailed how raising the gas tax might be a better way to boost federal highway funding. (Brian Davies/The Register-Guard)

CBO backs off plan to tax cars by the mile

Pete Kasperowicz · December 9, 2016 5:00 pm

The study found people hate the idea of being taxed by the mile by a more than 4-1 ratio. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Study: Drivers don’t want to be taxed by the mile

Pete Kasperowicz · October 19, 2016 4:09 pm

Under the nine-month pilot, set to start in July, 5,000 California volunteers will report and simulate payment for the amount of miles they travel. (AP Photo)

California is going to try charging drivers by the mile

Cassi Pollock · June 20, 2016 4:01 am

Obama's proposed $10.25 tax on a barrel of crude oil would be used for the Highway Trust Fund. (Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg File)

Energy and Environment

White House criticizes transportation budget over lack of oil tax

Kyle Feldscher · May 16, 2016 9:26 pm

Cut ordered by Congress is "unjust and violates several legal principles," American Bankers Association says. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Bankers see potential for legal challenge to Fed dividend cut

Joseph Lawler · April 28, 2016 9:00 pm

Fee raises funding to make new investments in transportation, while making the Highway Trust Fund solvent. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Energy and Environment

Obama proposes carbon tax on oil

John Siciliano · February 4, 2016 9:08 pm

Mark McCormick fills his motorcycle at a gas station in Raleigh, N.C., which dropped the tax on a gallon of gasoline to 35 cents per gallon on Jan. 1. (Bloomberg Photos)

One state’s plan to counter falling gas prices

Kyle Feldscher · January 18, 2016 5:01 am

President Obama will nominate University of Michigan economist Kathryn Dominguez to the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors. (AP Photo) Â

Fed paid $97.7 billion to Treasury in 2015

Joseph Lawler · January 11, 2016 6:25 pm

After years of struggling, Republican leaders decided to work across the aisle to win enough votes to move legislation in each chamber. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

How 2015 became the year of compromise in Congress

Susan Ferrechio · December 28, 2015 5:00 am

A bill, passed earlier this week by the House, includes a provision that will revive and reform the Export-Import Bank, which lost its charter on June 30 because of conservative GOP opposition. (Chris Kleponis/Bloomberg News.)

Senate sends highway, Export-Import Bank bill to Obama

Susan Ferrechio · December 4, 2015 2:01 am

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said, "I think financing federal fiscal spending by tapping the resources of the Federal Reserve sets a bad precedent and impinges on the independence of the central bank. It weakens fiscal discipline." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Yellen bashes highway bill for using Fed money

Joseph Lawler · December 3, 2015 4:41 pm