Having just secured his first term in Congress, Gerry Connolly is now calling for a higher gas tax (WTOP):
Congressman-elect Gerry Connolly (D-VA) on WTOP’s Politics Program with Mark Plotkin said one of his top priorities will be transportation funding. And one possible way to raise the necessary funds could be an increase to the federal gas tax.
“If the gas tax is the way we do that, so be it. It hasn’t been raised in a long time,” Connolly said. “I hate to talk about raising taxes first thing out, but we have to stabilize the revenue source for the Federal Highway Trust Fund.”
I wonder how many Connolly voters might have made a different choice if Connolly had mentioned this before November 4.
This is SCOP… Standard Connolly Operating Procedure. Sound moderate long enough to win, then both tilt left and serve his developer masters.
[...] to propose all sorts of tax hikes in order to “help stimulate” the economy? As Right Wing Liberal notes, one wonders if voters might have made a different choice if Connolly had mentioned this before [...]