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  • Lawmakers OK gas-tax freeze 21 Nov 2009 05:59 GMT
    ... bill Friday as a tax increase in disguise. "Whether you support it or don't support it, ... opponents noted, the adjustable portion of the gas tax would have dropped 1.7 cents a gallon on ... health-care costs on their financial books. The Senate rejected the proposal after Sen. John Unger, ...

  • State, federal officials consider raising gas taxes 24 Nov 2009 06:04 GMT
    ... working on proposals to increase their respective gas taxes, which would raise the money necessary to ... cash. At the state level, House and Senate members are working on a bill for ... registration fees and phase out diversion of gas tax revenue to nontransportation items such as public ...

  • Possible gas tax increase 25 Nov 2009 01:30 GMT
    ... the state of Texas should raise it's gas tax, and now federal officials are looking at the ... rotten deal for Texas in general," said U.S. Rep. Mac Thornberry, (R) Clarendon. ...

  • Lawmakers pass gas tax package 21 Nov 2009 06:21 GMT
    ... Lawmakers wrote the final chapter Friday in a ... debate flared in the House, led by Republican opponents, over Gov. Joe Manchin's plan to ... cleared on a 64-23 tally with five Democrats voting against it, including Delegates Bill Wooton ...

  • GOP bills will fix roads without raising taxes 21 Nov 2009 01:54 GMT
    ... maintenance of our roads without imposing higher gas taxes. We believe the Legislature’s insistence on setting ... due to the continued decline in state revenues. Those revenues are down for one simple ... a scenario that will either increase the gas tax or let our roads continue to decay. ...

  • New Report: U.S. Road Funding From Non-Road Users Doubled in 25 Years 26 Nov 2009 05:16 GMT
    ... that U.S. roads "pay for themselves" thanks to user fees ... the use of about one-sixth of federal gas tax revenue to pay for transit.) What has caused ...

  • Readers' voice: Nov. 27, 2009 27 Nov 2009 07:07 GMT
    ... Washington, D.C. I think it occupies the Senate and the White House. I'd like to ... reason the Legislature didn't vote on the gas tax and finish up their session on Thursday was ... a chance to make a big play. Guess what, Coach? Your opponents know that and aren't ...

  • Short week thoughts 29 Nov 2009 05:22 GMT
    ... of actual legislation.) I was joking with Senate President Earl Ray Tomblin, D-Logan, that whenever ... the governor's bill to freeze the state gas tax at its current 32.2 cents a gallon (SB4004) ... same House leaders who scoffed at House Republicans claiming the governor's bill was a tax ...

  • After break, 'tis the season to tackle pressing tax issues 29 Nov 2009 16:00 GMT
    ... extenders legislation has not been considered by Congress yet. And without action by Capitol Hill, ... by conservative Christian groups and professional sports leagues. Legalizing Internet gaming has been a cause for ... American Trucking Association, also favor raising the gas tax to pay for a new highway bill. But ...

  • Representatives need a reminder to protect waterways 28 Nov 2009 06:57 GMT
    ... to support the two bills now before Congress to restore the Chesapeake Bay and its ... supported several workable solutions, including raising the gas tax by 1 cent, but the House leadership, Republican ... eight years of the Bush administration. I guess he was too busy cutting taxes with no offsets in ...

  • Ken Murray: What's Plan B for local government? 29 Nov 2009 08:16 GMT
    ... small portion of sales taxes, property taxes, gas taxes and user fees. Added to the local ... it for designated purposes. As an example, gas tax receipts pay for street maintenance and subsidized ... up. For more than a decade, the U.S. personal savings rate has been a negative ...

  • McCain Pledges to Invest in Clean Coal, Support Lower Taxes 25 Nov 2009 16:12 GMT
    ... is a renewed call for a federal gas tax holiday, a reduction in the federal corporate tax ... extend the tax cuts made by the Bush administration, which are set to expire in ... most passionately was ending budget earmarks by Congress, better known as pork-barrel spending. He pledged ...

  • List of Taxes Proposed to Pay for Health Care Reform 30 Nov 2009 09:01 GMT
    ... to Pay for Health Care Reform The U.S. Senate recently released its long-awaited proposal for a government-run ... be as illogical as raising the federal gas tax, which funds highway construction and maintenance, to pay ... is a list of the tax increases Congress and the Administration have proposed to finance ...

  • West Virginia lawmakers end special session 21 Nov 2009 05:56 GMT
    ... special session Friday with tweaks to the gas tax and state energy policy among the final bills ... and Senate also endorsed one resolution honoring U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., as history's longest-serving member ... Byrd, D-W.Va., as history's longest-serving member of Congress, and another defending the state's coal industry. ...

  • Obama needs to control spending 29 Nov 2009 09:22 GMT
    ... In many families there is a point, often during ... America's overstretched homeowners. One out of four U.S. homeowners now owes more on a house ... raising them on consumption. Carbon taxes, higher gas taxes, taxing employer-provided health insurance, raising the retirement ...


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