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world to now we re like the joke of the world, the united states with its crumbling eisenhower era infrastructure. congress has spent less and less on infrastructure. in 2011 the republican-led congress banned earmarks, money lawmakers would slip into bills often to pay for infrastructure projects back home. it is not just the ban to blame for the funding problems. congress hasn t raised the gas tax since 1993. and ever since then there has been risk of urgency. obama pulled the plug because he was scared to death we were going to talk about a gas tax. let me stop you. sorry. president obama was scared of raising taxes, so he pulled the plug and that s part of the reason that infrastructure isn t better today? absolutely. how crucial is the gas tax? it is the way that we could provide money short-term. what i would like to do is a tiny increment. i capped it at one-and-a-half cents a year. who is going to lose the election over that?

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