Built Quote by Ray LaHood Download Open image “The last time we raised the gas tax, which is how we built the interstate system, was 1993.” — Ray LaHood ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Built Gas Interstate Last time Lasts Raised Taxes Time
The gas tax has been the backbone of the transportation system since the inception of the Interstate highway system in the 1950s. — Anthony Foxx Copy Share Image
I don't see a groundswell of people willing to raise gas taxes right now. That leaves fuel economy standards as the only effective tool… — Sherwood Boehlert Copy Share Image
After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan cut taxes… — Pat Toomey Copy Share Image
It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available… — Barbara Castle Copy Share Image
The reality is that during the Reagan years, for instance, we doubled the amount of revenue that we were sending to Washington, D.C. after… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
“History lesson, folks: The tax system we have today—the one we've come to know and love—began ninety-four years ago as a (drum roll, please)… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
It was not until the Abraham Lincoln administration that an income tax was imposed on Americans. Its stated purpose was to finance the war, but it took until 1872 for it to be repealed. During the Grover Cleveland administration, Congress enacted the Income Tax Act of 1894. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional in 1895. It took the Sixteenth… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share
A gas tax could be one important element of an integrated energy policy. — Alan Mulally Copy Share Image
I understand gas prices are like a hidden tax - not a hidden tax; it's taking money out of people's pockets. I know that. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
When oil and gas prices went up dramatically and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
The Bush administration, they had two blue ribbon commissions about infrastructure finance that recommended a lot more money, and additionally the gas tax being… — Ray LaHood Copy Share Image
The Chinese are more successful [in building infrastructure] because in their country, only three people make the decision. ... In a country where only… — Ray LaHood Copy Share Image
Last time Congress passed a major six-year transportation bill was in 1997, since then there have been 21 short-term extensions. — Ray LaHood Copy Share Image
Liveability means being able to take your kids to school, go to work, see a doctor, drop by the grocery or Post Office, go… — Ray LaHood Copy Share Image
Public spending on infrastructure has fallen to its lowest level since 1947. And the U.S., which used to have the finest infrastructure in the… — Ray LaHood Copy Share Image
Portal Bridge is based on a design from the 1840s and was already obsolete shortly after it was completed in 1910. It's a swing… — Ray LaHood Copy Share Image
What Lincoln did is he gathered people around him the way that I believe President Obama is doing by calling Republicans, talking to them,… — Ray LaHood Copy Share Image
People across America who value bicycling should have a voice when it comes to transportation planning. This is the end of favoring motorized transportation… — Ray LaHood Copy Share Image
A shortage of airports runways and gates along outmoded air traffic control systems have made U.S. air travel the most congested in the world. — Ray LaHood Copy Share Image
It's really fun and challenging to build things that have never been built before. — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
So I concentrated on the rhythmic side of things, and therefore left a lot of holes. I didn't want to use big pad chords… — Midge Ure Copy Share Image
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Most startups are not just built for the person who is using them. When you do that, every now and then you get really… — Emmett Shear Copy Share Image
Call me the rap assassinator / rhymes rugged and built like Schwarzenegger — Raekwon Copy Share Image
Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.… — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
God and I have built an immense fire together. We keep each other happy and warm. — Hafez Copy Share Image
When we built Roomba, we explicitly designed it to not have a face. We didn't want to think it was cute; we wanted people… — Colin Angle Copy Share Image
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image