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Economist Byron Schlomach On Potential Federal Gas Tax Increase

Arizona’s average gas price is just more than $2 a gallon and the national average isn’t much higher than that.

Those dropping prices have led some in Congress to call for increasing the federal gas tax for the first time in more than two decades. The federal tax currently stands at a little more than 18 cents. Arizona’s gas tax is about the same.

To talk more about that idea, we called on Byron Schlomach, an Economist with the Goldwater Institute.

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Mark Brodie is a co-host of The Show, KJZZ’s locally produced news magazine. Since starting at KJZZ in 2002, Brodie has been a host, reporter and producer, including several years covering the Arizona Legislature, based at the Capitol.