Indiana GOP Lawmakers (and VP-Elect Pence) Draw Fire for Tax Cuts that Gutted Transportation Funding

WFHB notes that some of the Indiana Republican lawmakers who are advocating increased spending on transportation infrastructure also “voted for tax cuts that created the revenue shortfall in the first place. The Pence administration signed off on hundreds of millions of dollars in tax cuts per year. . . . The Pence tax cuts add up to almost half the money [HB 1002, the Republicans’ new transportation funding bill] seeks to raise, depending on estimates.” Regarding the possibility of more tolling, WFHB says, “While Republicans have been mute on exactly which interstates would be targeted for tolling, likely candidates include I-70, I-65, and I-69. Tolls were proposed during the Daniels administration for I-69 between Bloomington and Indianapolis, but the proposal was eventually dropped amid intense public outcry.”