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...Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority announced that subway construction in Harvard Square "really is almost complete this time...
...Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority announces that subway construction in Harvard Square "is really almost complete this time, seriously, fellas...
Ironically, the President even had trouble winning approval of a piece of jobs-oriented legislation that he did support: a bipartisan plan to raise the federal gasoline tax and use the revenue to finance highway and transit improvements. Unlike the Democrats, Reagan refrained from terming the proposal a "jobs bill." Instead he called it a "user's fee" and a "highway bill." This euphemistic truce enabled both parties to embrace the proposal; it was overwhelmingly approved by the House and was expected to sail through the Senate...
Even safer were the lawmakers who pushed last week for both a 5? increase in the gasoline tax to fund a highway and mass-transit rebuilding program, which had bipartisan backing, and a larger public works bill proposed by Democrats. The poll shows that 30% of Americans want only the highway-transit program, while 40% want both the road repairs and a larger jobs-creation program. One-fourth of the respondents rejected both of the proposals, while 5% cannot decide...
...economists were also dubious about a White House-backed plan that would raise the federal gasoline tax by 5? per gal., so that the revenues raised could be used to put 320,000 people to work repairing highways, bridges and mass-transit systems. While agreeing that such restoration projects were needed, the board members pointed out that the increased tax would probably reduce consumer spending and might destroy more jobs than it created. Said Heller: "This is an anti-jobs bill...