Our heroic republican’ts here in Michigan are now wanting to raise the gas tax or the sales tax and already have another bill that would skim some 8% off the top of that to “Maintain biking and hiking trails”.
Here in Ohio, we have a ‘Commercial Activity Tax’ (CAT). One of the provisions was challenged by our reps that wanted to put certain revenue into the ‘General Fund’, but they lost.
http://courtnewsohio.gov/cases/2012/SCO/1207/111536.asp
Supreme Court Rules Use of Commercial Activity Tax Revenues From Sale of Motor Vehicle Fuel For Non-Highway Purposes Is Unconstitutional
Ruling Is Prospective Only, Does Not Apply to Past Allocations
By Dennis Whalen | December 7, 2012
‘ That provision, which was added to the constitution by the state’s voters through a 1947 initiative petition, states that
“No moneys derived from fees, excises, or license taxes relating to registration, operation, or use of vehicles on public highways, or to fuels used for propelling such vehicles, shall be expended for other than costs of administering such laws, statutory refunds and adjustments provided therein, payment of highway obligations, costs for construction, reconstruction, maintenance and repair of public highways and bridges and other statutory highway purposes, expense of state enforcement of traffic laws, and expenditures authorized for hospitalization of indigent persons injured in motor vehicle accidents on the public highways.”
Just one battle victory in the war on business.