Julian Bond said "I particularly commend my good friend from Texas for pointing out what we in the Midwest, as well as the Southwest, feel so strongly about, which is that when you raise fees on people who use highways, it is not pleasant. But when they go to highways, we can understand what they are being used for. If you raise fees on people who generate hazardous waste, if it goes to clean up hazardous waste, that is a reasonable argument. But when it goes to the general revenue fund, permits spending and overspending in many areas, it is a real problem." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordJune 14, 1996

I particularly commend my good friend from Texas for pointing out what we in the Midwest, as well as the Southwest, feel so strongly about, which is that when you raise fees on people who use highways, it is not pleasant. But when they go to highways, we can understand what they are being used for. If you raise fees on people who generate hazardous waste, if it goes to clean up hazardous waste, that is a reasonable argument. But when it goes to the general revenue fund, permits spending and overspending in many areas, it is a real problem.

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Julian Bond

Alabama

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing concerns over highway fees and hazardous waste fees during a floor speech.

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