Pollution tax on gasoline

Someone can argue that increasing taxes can help out our government and help out our city or states. If taxes on gasoline were increased then the government would make more money to help pay for things wrong with the area you are in. According to atr.com raising the product tax will help us slowly decrease out debt. If we could take our country out of debt then it would help out our country a lot. 

The number one problem with our debt or trying to fix it is a bad idea because think of the mount of resources and time we would have to set aside to decrease the debt number. If the gas taxes were raised it would less benefits than things bad about it. "Currently the gas tax brings in around $34 billion annually, yet the federal government is spending roughly $50 billion each year." (ATR.org) even though we already receive a lot of money with the tax all we do is spend it almost right away so we don't actually receive any money for it.

Should the government increase it's pollution tax on gasoline? I believe that the government should not raise the tax on gasoline because not very many people could afford a raise. A lot of people already have trouble paying for gas so if they raise taxes then many vehicles would not be able to be driven. Since many people will not be able to afford the gas overall or in general. According to NBC news most Americans can't afford cars which can also have a monthly payment and gas considering is a weekly payment depending on how much a person drives to get places. Then you also have to include taxes that people receive from various things and groceries so raising a pollution tax will decrease the amount of people that drive or the amount of gas people use every day.