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 110 STAT. 4474 CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS^JUNE 13, 1996 (3) efforts should be made to ensure coordination and eliminate duplication among federally supported at-risk youth programs; and (4) special efforts should be made to increase successful interdiction of the flow of illegal drugs into the United States and into communities nationwide. SEC. 424. SENSE OF THE SENATE ON LONG-TERM TRENDS IN BUDGET ESTIMATES. It is the sense of the Senate that— (1) the report accompanying a concurrent resolution on the budget should include an analysis, prepared after consultation with the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, of the concurrent resolution's impact on likely budgetary trends during the next 30 fiscal years; and (2) the President should include in his budget each year, an analysis of the budget's impact on revenues and outlays for entitlements for the period of 30 fiscal years, and that the President should also include likely budgetary trends during the next 30 fiscal years, and that the President should also include generational accounting information each year in the President's budget. SEC. 425. SENSE OF THE SENATE ON REPEAL OF THE GAS TAX. (a) FINDINGS.— The Senate finds that— (1) the President originally proposed a $72,000,000,000 energy excise tax (the so-called BTIJ tax) as part of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 (OBRA 93) which included a new teix on transportation fuels; (2) in response to opposition in the Senate to the BTU tax, the President and Congress adopted instead a new 4.3 cents per gallon transportation fuels tax as part of OBRA 93, which represented a 30 percent increase in the existing motor fuels tax; (3) the OBRA 93 transportation fuels tax has cost American motorists an estimated $14,000,000,000 to $15,000,000,000 since it went into effect on October 1, 1993; (4) the OBRA 93 transportation fuels tax is regressive, creating a larger financial impact on lower and middle income motorists than on upper income motorists; (5) the OBRA 93 transportation fuels tax imposes a disproportionate burden on rural citizens who do not have access to public transportation services, and who must rely on their automobiles and drive long distances, to work, to shop, and to receive medical care; (6) the average American faces a substantial tax burden, and the increase of this tax burden through the OBRA 93 transportation fuels tax represented and continues to represent an inappropriate and unwarranted means of reducing the Nation's budget deficit; (7) retail gasoline prices in the United States have increased an average of 19 cents per gallon since the beginning of the year to the highest level since the Persian Gulf War, and the OBRA 93 transportation fuels tax exacerbates the impact of this price increase on consumers; (8) continuation of the OBRA 93 transportation fuels tax will exacerbate the impact on consumers of any future gasoline price spikes that result from market conditions; and

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