Sorry, I haven’t been avoiding this thread - I just didn’t realize people would continue lodging indirect complaints about people getting to keep more of their own money.
Anywho, I support a higher gas tax in theory. I prefer the general model of people paying for stuff as they use it. The problem is that the gas tax revenue is not segregated into a highway only fund (an Al Gore “lockbox” so to speak). Create an infrastructure bank funded exclusively by the gas tax and I would support a modest tax increase.