We’re just a few days into this year’s legislative session and one thing being talked about a lot is infrastructure funding.

District 10 State Senator Jake Chapman says something needs to be done but he doesn’t feel increasing the gas tax is the way to do it.

“It’s no secret that there’s issues with our secondary roads and bridges in Iowa and there’s a lot of different ideas on how we should be funding that, ranging from gas tax to sales tax to local option tax.  I’ve been of the opinion that we can actually be putting more money into secondary roads than a gas tax can, in fact my bill that I proposed would have put twice as much money into secondary roads as a gas tax would.  We can do it without raising taxes, we just have to make it a priority” says Chapman.

Chapman says he feels there will be a change in infrastructure funding this year, though it’s too early to tell what exactly that will be.