Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said he opposes increasing the gas tax as a means to raise revenue to fund a new infrastructure bill.
“The bottom line is that we don’t want to raise taxes on working people right now,” Schumer told the Daily Beast. “As it stands now that is where we are at. Income distribution is so bad, I would rather pay for infrastructure by taking the money that comes from overseas [repatriation] and putting it into infrastructure.”
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