Agriculture, Truckers Seek Gas Tax Increase for Infrastructure

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, American Trucking Associations urge for tax increase to pay for infrastructure upgrades in a letter to Senate Finance Cmte Chairman Chuck Grassley, House Ways and Means Cmte Chairman Richard Neal and the minority leaders of the two panels
• Policy could be implemented “without adding a dime to a federal deficit that has exploded in recent weeks,” Farm Bureau President Zippy Duvall and ATA President Chris Spear tell panels in letter ...