there is an idea called repay treeation which would allow the onshoring of offshore corporate revenueentertain in a way that ty has doesn't slow sgrowth. frankly the business community has said anything below a ten we ar percent tax on repay treeation riatio isn something they would consider acceptable. if we were able to take a repay treeation and fund two, three, feder four alyears we don't need an y increase in the federal fuel tax but it might make politically possible the idea of indexing the federal fuel tax. the federal fuel tax is not y indexed indexed. so as fuel efficiency standards continue to improve, the revenueinclud from fuelin taxes continues to flo decrease, many states including fed my state of florida have alreadycost-of- indexed their federal fuel tax much like we index other cost ofif we living programs. i'm not prepared to endorse that today but it'sca something we epatri should put on the table. if we can get a repay treatation revenue source to get us two, three, four years down the road, at the same time instituting an mon annual index to the federal fuel tax,

>> i think there's been conversation about reanticipate treeation as the solution but it doesn't really make sense because they're talking about a holiday. again it's a short-term gap. we need comprehensive tax reform, not corporate tax reform solely. we need comprehensive tax reform. what we should be looking for for funding solutions, as rich pointed out, a user tax funding through public private partnerships additional funding through federal and state programs, but we should be looking at transportation-related revenues that are sustainable long term and have growth built into them. >> i don't disagree. there's a number of things that can and should be done. i think we need to use the user tax. we need to look at vehicle miles traveled, a program being tried out in the west because you're coming up with electrical cars. the gas tax hasn't been increased -- >> americans don't like the idea of the government watching where their car goes. >> they already do if they have a cell phone in their pocket. i hate to tell them that. look, there's a lot of ways to do it. if you say let's do it