 ccrp poll pension smoothing to pay for highway trust fund shortage   new poll overview ways and means committee chairman dave camp is proposing a 109 billion plan to address the lack of revenue that will be available to the highway trust fund for the next eight or nine months the proposed plan would be funded by some fund transfers and revenueraising measures including 65 billion in new revenue from something referred to as pension smoothing pension smoothing is an accounting action that allows companies to delay contributions to employee pension plans resulting in shortterm corporate profits producing more tax revenue that can be collected by the treasury house speaker john boehner is in favor of camp s plan to extend the us highway funding until may 31 2015 from and hopes to see it pass the house within two weeks in a statement congressman camp stated that this is the only package with a proven history of getting big bipartisan votes in both the house and senate and while it doesn t provide as much funding as i would like mdash enough to get through the end of next year mdash it does give congress and the taxwriting committees ample time to consider a more longterm solution to the highway trust fund new poll question should congress pass legislation to allow companies to delay pension contributions to fund the highway trust fund yes no undecided to vote in this poll click on this link http clintoncountygoporg content shouldcongresspasslegislationallowcompaniesdelaype e2809chighwayt  to enter your comments click on add new comment after you vote previous poll question should the legislature come back into session to grant additional revenue to schools yes 10 no 85 undecided 5 one comment was made on this poll comment 1 education funding this is a political stunt by the democrats because the media has not grasped the facts and the public appears to be buying their story the facts are that governor snyder and legislative republicans have budgeted more than 1 billion to k12 education in the last 4 years that s billion with a great big b about 1000 more dollars in state aid is attached to every pupil in our public schools over that same time period michigan has suffered the loss of 57000 fewer kids in our schools in that same time period so in summary we have a billion dollars more to spend on educating fewer students   all emails addresses  