Club for Growth Opposes Corker-Murphy Tax Increase

 Club for Growth President Chris Chocola: “This is a $164 billion dollar tax increase, plain and simple.”

Washington, DC – The Club for Growth released the following statement criticizing a plan by Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) and Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) to raise the gas tax to cover the projected shortfall in the Highway Trust fund:

“This is a $164 billion dollar tax increase, plain and simple. A gas tax hike would be both bad policy and terribly anti-growth,” said Club for Growth President Chris Chocola. “It’s not an example of political courage to avoid reforming a broken system. Instead of standing up to the special interests who feast on the chronically bankrupt Highway Trust Fund year after year, Senator Corker and Senator Murphy have essentially decided that throwing more money into a black hole is a good path forward. It’s not. Rather than perpetuate this failed system, Congress should devolve highway funding to the states and let them fund their own infrastructure needs.”