Posted on 05/09/2017 6:24:18 AM PDT by finnsheep
If there were ever a time to increase the gas tax it would be NOW! A tax bill is in the works. The Democrats want it "paid for." Oil price is way down and not likelihood of an increase soon. High tech improvements to oil discovery and production have drastically reduced oil prices.
I am happy to pay more for a gas tax that would improve road and bridge infrastructure. PA increased the gas tax and nobody fussed much. A federal gas tax hike is long overdue and Democrats would vote for it!
I missed the /sarc tag...write the check your damned self.
I’d be willing to pay more at the pump in taxes as long as every single cent of what’s going to taxes today at the pump goes for roads/vehicle infrastructure first. No more bike paths, green belts, open space, choo-choos, or trollies. Nothing to the general funds of any government entity. Then, if there needs to be more funding, I’ll consider paying more.
I also support you paying more for gas. Just stay out of my pocket
The government takes enough of what I earn away from me now. If you want them to have more of what you earn, write the IRS a check.
I’m so sorry. I fail to see even the hint of sarcasm in your post. Perhaps you could enlighten as to where it lies, as I’m certain no thinking human would write such drivel with deliberate intent.
Really? In PA, Governor Corbett KNEW it was unpopular, so unpopular that he said during the campaign “ I know the people of Pennsylvania are smart enough to know that I DIDN’T raise their gas taxes, I ELIMINATED them”... Apparently not realizing that were ARE smart enough to know that when the taxes are all on the producer/wholesale level that we ARE the ones actually paying them. Therefore, he’s GONE, and most people are still burning about it.
Tell me(us) where to send your refund of $0.02, which is worth more than your thought!
How about reducing the federal gas taxes to a couple cents per gallon to subsidize the federal highways passing through a few low population states in the west. All other taxes for building and repairs should be handled at the state level. If Massachusetts wants a Big Dig, go for it. If Alaska really needs a bridge to nowhere, feel free to buy one. If California wants to tax drivers to pay for their train, it’s not my problem. If Ohio wants to spend money to put sleeper cabins in ODOT trucks, well that is my problem but it won’t be yours.
Things your fuel tax dollar goes to fund that are not roads or road-related infrastructure:
Trains - especially high speed trains to nowhere
Bicycle Paths
Parks
Pedestrian Bridges
Duck Ponds
Global Warming Crapola
Junket Trips To Europe
Solar projects that don’t actually work
Promotional driving simulators at the Corvette Museum
If we removed all the things that were not actually road related from the budget, the current gas tax would likely not only handily fund all the outstanding road and bridge maintenance the Feds are responsible, they would also have money to build *new* ones to replace smaller, older, less safe and less capacious ones.
No. This is the worst time to pitch a gas tax. Gas will go up again and this will make it worse when it does. In Mi we rejected an increase on the ballot
by almost 70%. The GOP legislators shoved it through 6 months later. So now we are stuck with it forever.
Um, NO!
The ‘ol gas tax will repair our roads, shtick. Except that in our state, and at the federal level the gas tax fund has been raided repeatedly for other things. It gets raided when their is a shortage in other areas and then, at least in the case of my state, the politicians simply issue more bonds to replace the cash they stole from the gas tax fund.
Again in my state they use the gas tax to fund all sorts of bike lanes and - literally - million dollar bicycle bridges over highways.
So, no.
I can see where this is coming from. Any tax increase is going to be pretty darn hard to stomach with the Massive Institutional Waste and Corruption in the Federal System.
A very hard sell.
At 68.7 cents per gallon, PA now has the highest gas tax in the nation. And you think people aren’t bothered by it?
Think again.
More tax generally seems to mean a larger slush fund for somebody. Look at all the cases where this has happened. When a new tax or an increase is proposed & it doesn’t happen,then bureaucrats cry about having to cut essential services...and that seems to be the first thing they look at. The working people have to live within their means;the government should be forced to do the same.
Will states that also have toll roads agree to issue an across-the-board toll reduction for as long as the federal gas tax is then hiked?
Yeah, didn’t think so.
“A gas tax hike is overdue”
Really, Nancy Pelosie?????
A tax hike is not overdue. That’s liberating crap.
Sounds like a Democrat for tax increases. How Typical.
Another liberal freeper checks in.
Liberals always want to raise the tax on oil when prices are down to pay for roads etc. Problem is it all goesin to the general fund and is spent on social programs
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