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Peter DeFazio: “Let's index the gas tax--radical proposal. We can index it to construction cost, inflation, fleet fuel economy.”

On the recordJanuary 31, 2017
Let's index the gas tax--radical proposal. We can index it to construction cost, inflation, fleet fuel economy.
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Peter DeFazio
Democratic · Oregon

Editor's note · Context

DeFazio proposes indexing the gas tax to various economic factors to ensure sustainable funding.

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