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“ THEy SaId IT”
“People start saying they
want smaller government… “It’s not that we’re
but you do that in a
responsible way that doesn’t spending too much
throw people out of nursing money on our
homes, that doesn’t close roads and bridges.
your human development
centers, that doesn’t put 60 We’re not.”
or 50 or 40 youngsters in —president obama said in a statement the day the sequester went
a classroom, that doesn’t into effect that he’s going to continue pushing for improvements to
infrastructure despite the divide between his party and Congressional
totally neglect colleges and Republicans.
drive them out of business or
to the point that tuition is so
high nobody can go. You do “Businesses are “A higher gas tax would
that in a sensible fashion.” looking harder at help fix crumbling highways
their bottom line
—arkansas governor mike beebe (d) offering while also generating
his view on attempts by state legislators to and know that the money that could help
cut government services. transportation
cost is one of the offset the impact on low-
“I’m talking about top three costs in and middle-income families.
funding a use running a business Increasing the tax, as part
legitimately. If you and customers of a bipartisan budget deal,
drive, you need are looking for with a clear explanation
gas. If you need the most cost to the public of its role
gas, you pay a tax. effective mode of in lowering oil imports
The tax has to go transportation to and improving our air and
just to taking care fit their business.” highways, could be among
of transportation. —marty Shell, president of the most important energy
Van Buren-based Five Rivers
We’re just doing distribution, reacts to a recent decisions we make.”
U.S. Corps of Engineers report
phony accounting.” which showed river tonnage on —Valerie J. Karplus, a research scientist
the mcClellan-Kerr Arkansas River
—u.S. Senator mike enzi (R-Wyo.) Navigation System during all of in the Joint program on the Science and
making the case for raising the federal 2012 was 11.687 million tons, up 10 policy of global Change at m.I.T., wrote
fuel tax to help pay for the $109 billion percent compared to 2011. an opinion column for the New York Times
transportation budget. supporting a federal gas tax increase.
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