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Drivers used to pay for roads. Washington is killing that idea.
The reason is simple math: The gasoline tax that bankrolls the federal Highway Trust Fund is politically untouchable.
A sign at a Tesoro gas station on the Seward Highway along the Turnagain Arm in Girdwood, Alaska. | (Al Grillo/AP Photo)
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For almost a century, one principle has governed Washington’s approach to transportation funding: The people who drive on roads should pay for them.
But that tenet has been withering for nearly 30 years. And the huge infrastructure packages emerging from Congress and the Biden White House are poised to strangle it.
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