As Taxpayers for Common Sense wrote a few weeks ago, “the Highway Trust Fund’s looming insolvency is not just a transportation problem—it is a taxpayer problem.” There are three broad options at this point:

1. Take billions more from all taxpayers (whether they buy gas or not) by deficit spending, transferring billions into the trust fund, and having all taxpayers pick up the tab
2. Take billions more from taxpayers by raising revenues in some fashion (increasing gas taxes or establishing new taxes)
3. Cut the size of the program’s spending down to the amount of revenue brought in each year and live within our means