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...toward votes four measures ranging from the probably worthwhile to the potentially disastrous. Ranked by their chances of becoming law, they are: 1) A bill to raise the federal gasoline tax 5?per gal. effective April 1 and use the estimated $5.5 billion a year in new revenues to repair highways, bridges and mass-transit systems. It passed the House last week by a resounding 262 to 143, but hit an unexpected snag in the Senate when three of that chamber's controlling Republicans began a filibuster. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker predicts the bill will pass...
Meantime, Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis' idea to hike gas taxes 5? per gal. to repair highways and bridges was making progress in Congress. And Reagan threw his weight behind the notion, hatched in the Department of Agriculture, of using surplus grain as a payment for not producing new grain...
...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...
...user fee," calculated to make those who drive on federally financed highways pay for their upkeep. The contention has some merit, but its real point was to avoid that awful word tax. Stockman countered by arguing that whatever it might be called, using a federal impost to finance repair work done by states and localities would violate Reagan's New Federalism concept. The President, however, recalled that as Governor of California he had agreed to an increase in the state gasoline tax that was rebated to localities. Said Reagan: "It didn't violate my basic principles then. Why should...
...being a rock-solid, long-lasting car that can be counted on to hold its value. It often claims that the life expectancy of its models on Swedish roads is 19.6 years. During the mid-1970s, however, the company was often slow shipping parts to U.S. dealers, causing repair delays. And some Detroit-built cars, notably Chevrolet's Camaro and Corvette, have kept their resale value better than Volvos...