Word: gal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were, but they nonetheless raised taxes) and that accepting it was the only way to get Congress to agree to more cuts in social spending, an equally high Reagan priority. He followed up two weeks ago by endorsing a congressional proposal to raise the federal gasoline tax 5¢ per gal. and use the money for repair of the nation's highways, bridges and mass-transit systems, although he had said as recently as September that only a "palace coup" could...
...Means Committee rushed through a five-year $27.5 billion program to rebuild the nation's transportation facilities. Although eventual approval seems likely, disputes are arising over how the funds should be distributed, whether the work can begin soon enough to be effective and whether the 5?-per-gal. gasoline tax increase that would finance it is equitable to lower-income citizens. The House bill, backed by the President and leaders of both parties, also would increase taxes on tires and fees paid by truckers, a proposal that drew sharp fire from trucking lobbyists. Airline executives want to exempt aviation...
...tattered transportation arteries, the proposal received almost instant bipartisan support. The Administration plan, expected to be sent up to Congress this week, envisions a 5? levy on refiners, to be passed through to motorists at the pump, that would increase the total federal gas tax to 9? per gal. and cost the average driver an additional $30 a year...
...estimate: 7.5 billion gal., a significant share of the 36 billion gal. that the U.S. uses every day, besides that employed for irrigation and generating power. Adams used the example to show that students have to think in quantitative terms to understand social problems...
...cuts. At his press conference last week, the President seemed receptive to a similar program that had been proposed a year ago by Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis. It would support about 300,000 jobs and be funded by some $5 billion from a 5?-per-gal. increase in the federal gas tax, which is now 4?. Reagan called this prospective rise a "user fee," and said he did not consider the Lewis plan a "job-creating proposal" as such. Indeed, with 11.6 million workers unemployed, these programs would be mainly symbolic gestures toward easing the problem...