I say to my friend they are user fees. It is not a general tax paid by all Americans, but rather by the traveling public who buys a gallon of gasoline or pays a ticket tax. They are user fees, and, therefore, they are fundamentally different from other taxes.
Discussing the nature of user fees in relation to taxes.
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We are going to spend every penny from that Highway Trust Fund, because the users paid it and they deserve that back.
You have to first demonstrate that you deploy those dollars efficiently to get things done.
Let's play to win as a country again. Let's get back in the transportation business in a significant way.
$1 trillion is not going to come from the Federal Government. It has got to come from a number of different sources.
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