Dick Durbin: Time to raise gas tax

Politico reports:

on Wednesday Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill), filling in as Democratic leader while Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) recuperates from an exercise injury, offered the most enthusiastic endorsement from a congressional leader yet this year on raising the gas tax.

“Now’s the time do it. But we ought to do it in a thoughtful way,” Durbin said, adding that the regressive nature of the gas tax must be confronted to shield lower- and middle-income drivers. “We’ve got to find some tax relief for them.

Dick Durbin the tax raiser.