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By: Real America News Updated 10 Sea 2022, 03: 32 pm EST
The calls to eliminate gasoline taxes echo among governors and legislators of several states in the face of the unstoppable rise of prices at service stations.
This Thursday, the national average price of a gallon of gasoline once again peaked at $4.29 dollars, depending on the daily report of the American Automobile Association (AAA).
The proposals did not take long to increase this week since Tuesday, when President Joe Biden confirmed that the United States would ban oil imports from Russia , as a sanction for his invasion of Ukraine, according to an ABC report.
-California
One of the first voices in ha The proposal to reduce the gasoline tax was made public by the Governor of California, Gavin Newsom (Democrat), during his State of the State address.
California is the state in which gasoline prices have increased most strongly. According to AAA’s Thursday report, the average price in the state is $5.69 dollars per gallon.
-Georgia
Another governor who joined this petition last Tuesday was Georgian Brian Kemp (Republican), petitioning to suspend the state’s $0 gas tax.18 cents per gallon.
-Virginia
One of the campaign promises of the current Governor of Virginia, Glen Youngkin (Republican), was to suspend the state tax on gasoline.
With the current scenario, the governor’s proposal seems to be echoed in the local legislature that now negotiates this possibility so that it is in force during e one year.
-Florida
The governor of Florida, Ron DeSantin (Republican) had already put on the table the suspension of the tax on gasoline since before the Russian invasion of Ukraine occurred.
His proposal considers a five-month suspension for this summer, a season in which gasoline consumption increases by season.
-Illinois
As part of a plan to cut taxes, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker (Democrat) has proposed suspending the $0.2 gas tax.
This week, the Governors of Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico , Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin sent a letter to congressional leaders asking to support a $0 federal gas tax suspension.18 cents.
Reducing the gas tax may not help consumers
Proposals to suspend or reduce the state gas tax may not have the impact that governors and legislators in several states hope .
A group of critics of this proposal considers that ldrivers may not find better prices for their pockets the next time they go to fill up gas, even if these taxes are suspended or reduced.
Only a third of the value of gas tax cuts and even taxable increases were passed on, on average, to consumers, from according to a report from 2020 of the American Association of Highway and Transportation Builders, cited by ABC.
One of the main concerns of this sector is that the suspension of taxes affects the budgets of dozens of infrastructure projects such as roads and bridges.
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