The Bloomberg editors are recommending an increase in the gas tax to fund infrastructure repairs.  Concern about infrastrucutre repair in the US is commendable, but we must begin to tackle the issue in a broader context.

W-T-W>org Women and FInance is recommending a twenty-year program funded by the federal government and administered by states in which tolls would pay for the repairs and money to be saved by new job creation would be factored into the costs and savings of the project.

The problem with gas taxes, which might be lievied as the cost of gas goes down, is that people who gas up to go to their jobs or trasnport goods may be disproportionately taxed.  The gas tax should also be legally pegged to infrastructure repair.