 should congress raise the gas and diesel tax to stabilize the federal highway trust fund and to fix roads  yes no undecided a real lock box our infrastructure is in shambles and is now a safety issue you know what will happen it is george bush s fault seriously we need to address this issue and it may be necessary to increase taxes to do so however this should not be done unless there is a true lock box type of mechanism in place to ensure that monies collected for this issue are used to only pay for infrastructure repairs and upgrades not one opinion will make a not one opinion will make a difference until each of us as voters understands michigans public act 51 which is the funding mechanism and how during the last 30 years the michigan legislature has supplanted massive amounts of so called dedicated road dollars from the gas tax to just about every other budget item in government expenditures if we in a prudent manner examine that formula and where the is going we would discover that we do not need any tax increases at all if we just do what the original pa 51 was set in statute for as far as our federal gas tax goes michgan has always been a donor state so for every buck we send to dc that formula sends back to michigan 90 cents this is ludicris if we raise the gas tax again in just a few years the crying for fix the roads will begin once again the problem is that most of our state legislators don t have any knowledge will not spend the time researching as they have been elected to do and are too young and have no life experience the proof is in the fruit of the labor and where we are as a state economically right now philip nancy bareham watertown township  should congress raise the gas and diesel tax stabilize the federal highway trust fund and fix roads  