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Fuel tax increase is the fastest, most direct way to meet state transportation needs
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch ^
| January 8, 2018
| The Post-Dispatch Editorial Board
Posted on 01/25/2018 1:08:08 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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Editorial: Fuel tax increase is the fastest, most direct way to meet state transportation needs
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Or you do what California does: increase the fuel tax and have that money funneled away from transportation needs.
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posted on
01/25/2018 1:12:52 PM PST
by
CatOwner
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"...transportation department needs a fuel-tax increase of at least $0.20 per gallon to..."
Why stop there, leftwingers?
Swing for the fences with a $2.00 per gallon tax.
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posted on
01/25/2018 1:14:24 PM PST
by
Blue Jays
( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; yldstrk; zerosix
How about the state Spends. Less. Money.
Missouri's gas is so much cheaper than Kansas'. If their gas gets up to Kansas levels I will have even less of a desire to go to Missouri.
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posted on
01/25/2018 1:15:38 PM PST
by
KC_Lion
(If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Baloney.
It goes into the general fund and the next day into a black hole.
Same with the toll money.
Ditto for the lottery money ‘earmarked’ for education.
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posted on
01/25/2018 1:15:56 PM PST
by
Paulie
(America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
You heard it here first:
Illinois is planning a Bullet Train!
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posted on
01/25/2018 1:32:27 PM PST
by
Scrambler Bob
(All posts are /s, unless otherwise specified.)
To: KC_Lion
Start the border war. Who wants go to Kansas?? Anyway it is interesting on State Line Avenue in KC, all the stations are in Missouri.
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posted on
01/25/2018 1:32:27 PM PST
by
taterjay
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Watch it disappear into the politicians pockets!
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posted on
01/25/2018 1:32:31 PM PST
by
W.
(.44 Magnum. No further questions needed.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
No more Bike lanes, no more diverting funds for feel good crap and we can talk.
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posted on
01/25/2018 1:38:29 PM PST
by
hadaclueonce
( This time I am Deplorable)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Always remember that politicians see you as a "nearly infinite taxable resource" aka a walking bag of money with a mouth.
It's a rare breed that even stop to think on how to save money vs how to get more money from the people.
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posted on
01/25/2018 1:38:56 PM PST
by
prophetic
(Trump is today's DANIEL. Shut the mouth of lions Lord, let his enemies be made the Cat Food instead.)
To: Scrambler Bob
Illinois is already on the bullet train to bankruptcy.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Remember the Tobacco Cancer settlement to compensate “victims”...?
In Los Angeles nearly all that money went to repairing SIDEWALKS.
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posted on
01/25/2018 1:56:09 PM PST
by
gaijin
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
For those of you who are outside Missouri, the St Louis Post Dispatch is a very liberal newspaper in a very conservative state. They are always going to be for tax increases.
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posted on
01/25/2018 2:07:58 PM PST
by
hanamizu
To: prophetic
Politicians have at their disposal a deep toolbox of legislative fixes to overcome problems of urgent public need. They go by many names, but fall into only two categories. Taxation and prohibition. No other ideas ever get considered.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
No it isn’t. Enough with the taxes.
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posted on
01/25/2018 2:18:26 PM PST
by
I want the USA back
(Doing more of what fails is the definition of liberalism and insanity.)
To: KC_Lion
I totally agree with KS needing to lower the gas tax.
My only caveat is, I feel safer in most areas in JoCo, KS than most areas in KCMO!
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posted on
01/25/2018 2:23:37 PM PST
by
zerosix
(Native Sunflowers)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Raise the minimum wage then take it away by upping the gas prices!
EPIC SOCIALIST FAIL!
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posted on
01/25/2018 2:31:11 PM PST
by
unixfox
(Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
To: CatOwner
There is no arguing California's guilt, every democrat from the kennedy wannabe goobernator on has stolen from the highways fund to pave over the deficit with a thin layer of misappropriation to hide what they pay for their
socialist programs and gifts to illegals.
But hat what makes you think California is special in the practice, other than of course Moonbeam and the democrats shift into ludicrous mode buoyed by the Aztlanists in their party.
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posted on
01/25/2018 5:17:07 PM PST
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Dear Post-Dispatch Editorial Board,
Please provide a graph of per capita (per taxpayer) MODOT expenditures, adjusted for inflation, from 1950 though the present.
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posted on
01/25/2018 5:17:58 PM PST
by
Paul R.
(I don't want to be energy free, we want to be energy dominant in terms of the world. -D. Trump)
To: Mastador1
Basing my opinion on experience only. Watched gas taxes increase in California while the roads (overall) have gotten worse.
I know there are other states with high gas taxes, but I can't speak to the quality of their transportation systems since I don't live there.
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posted on
01/25/2018 5:30:23 PM PST
by
CatOwner
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