Vote in the poll at the link. I vote NO plain and simple. It figure the politicians would go this way. When ever something happens just raise taxes. The money is there they have 3 trillion of our tax dollars. What is needed is leadership and management of the allocation of all these funds. More taxes is the last thing we want to do.

Bigger Gas Tax For Bridge Repairs?
Wednesday, August 8, 2007 08:17 AM - WBEN Newsroom

“We have to grasp this problem. And yes, I would even suggest, fund this problem with a tax” –Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska)

The Minneapolis bridge disaster that suddenly is the symbol of the nation’s crumbling infrastructure could tip the scales in favor of billions of dollars in higher gasoline taxes for repairs coast to coast.

There are 500 bridges around the country similar to the Minneapolis span, and “these are potential deathtraps,” says Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, former chairman of the House Transportation Committee.

“We have to, as a Congress, grasp this problem. And yes, I would even suggest, fund this problem with a tax,” he says. “May the sky not fall on me.”

One-quarter of the nation’s bridges, including the one in Minneapolis, have been classified as structurally deficient or functionally obsolete.

One-third of major roads are judged by federal transportation officials to be in poor or mediocre condition. …..more–>