WESTERMAN: Highway Trust needs long-term solution

If you could direct your federal tax dollars to one of three expenditures below, which one would you choose?

1. Using federal tax revenue to pay state and local sales taxes;
2. Pay 100 percent of health-insurance premiums for able-bodied, working-age adults who are not required to get a job, get job training, or even volunteer; or
3. Direct your taxes into the highway trust fund to build and maintain our crumbling infrastructure and create high paying construction jobs in the process without increasing fuel taxes.

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