Several years ago, when Bowles-Simpson was being stood up, they invited input from all of us, and George Voinovich and I suggested that we raise the gas tax and the diesel tax by a penny a month for 25 months.
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Carper recalls a past proposal to raise gas taxes for infrastructure funding.
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