Ellen Tauscher: “It is really crazy. Another thing that we found today in analyzing this bill is that it also eliminates the funding for…”

“It is really crazy. Another thing that we found today in analyzing this bill is that it also eliminates the funding for the highway trust fund. Now, this is particularly crazy, because we are in the process right now of passing a very important bill, one that we fought for hard in Michigan to be able to increase our fair share. We have not in Michigan over the years received our fair share, and we worked very hard to do that. But in the middle of this, it eliminates a wide variety of excise taxes and trust fund taxes, one being the highway trust fund. So in so many ways, this particular bill makes no sense. It eliminates those taxes, it raises taxes on seniors, middle-income people. I do not know where we get the dollars then for the highway trust fund; I think that is an important question to ask.”