CBO: Tolls, mileage fees would better fund roads

The Hill ^ | February 16, 2016 | Keith Laing

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

[Secret Agent Man]

Bullsh1t.

This is about tracking people.

Resist we much. /sharpton

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Resist we much another day /GOP-e.

[DoughtyOne]

Gasoline tax would go a long way toward covering highways, if government didn’t steal those funds to use on their inner city pet projects.

Then they push tolls, additional gas taxes, whatever else they can come up with.

Just say no citizens!

[NonValueAdded]

No, Toll Authorities are horrible shepherds of the funds they collect. They are constantly building and rebuilding toll booths because they are flush with cash, become a haven for failed politicians, their contracting practices are suspect, and there is little accountability to the public. Have you ever heard of tolls being lowered? Compare what Orange County, Florida does for their stretch of Route 528 “the Beach Line” and their toll infrastructure versus Brevard County where they pulled down the toll booths and do just as good a job of maintaining the highway as does the toll authority. Forget the theory, look at reality.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

The elite are looking for a justification to require car tracking to bill us “fairly.” A gas tax is the fairest way to collect revenue and it doesn't track you. A tiny liberal “Smart Car” that is light and uses little gas and consequently contributes less wear than a gas guzzling conservative’s F150. What could be more fair. Make up the $16b shortfall by cutting welfare to illegal immigrants and able bodied loafers.

[KarlInOhio]

About the only vehicle not covered properly is that darling of the left, the electric car. Dump the subsidies and do a mileage tax verified and charged at registration time so no GPS is needed.

[American in Israel]

How about putting illegals to work building roads?

[crazyhorse691]

Highway improvement was originally meant to be a method to facilitate the movement of goods by the farmers and producers to the market, not a means for the urban dweller to visit the rural and turn it into the urban playground.

[Luke21]

The commies at “The Hill” never met a tax they didn’t like.

[stocksthatgoup]

A tax by any other name.

[CurlyDave]

How about putting illegals to work building roads?

You have hit it.

Get caught as an illegal and you are on a chain gang for 12 months before being deported.

[blueplum]

gas tax revenue is already a ‘mileage’ fee. The more mileage you drive, the more you fill up and the more gas taxes you pay. But you just know, by renaming the revenue a ‘mileage fee’ means it will go up more than you’re paying now in gas taxes because they’ll need to hire staff to read all those odometers.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Have you ever heard of tolls being lowered?

Yes. They were lowered last year in my state (Maryland).

[publius911]

CBO: Tolls, mileage fees would better fund roads

I thought the Magic Negro's "Stimulus 1" Was supposed to take care of all that.

When was that? 2009?

[Secret Agent Man]

Yup.

[Secret Agent Man]

It is not about taxes. It is about tracking everywhere you go.

[Gene Eric]

The govt admitting it cannot properly administer revenue.

[Nailbiter]

BS if politicians have access to the money it will never be spent correctly- or more bluntly it will be squandered.
However if they persist with this line- they need to remove all taxes on petroleum products