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Editorial: Fuel tax increase is the fastest, most direct way to meet state transportation needs

1 posted on 01/25/2018 1:08:09 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Or you do what California does: increase the fuel tax and have that money funneled away from transportation needs.


2 posted on 01/25/2018 1:12:52 PM PST by CatOwner
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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.


3 posted on 01/25/2018 1:14:24 PM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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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.

4 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.)
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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.


5 posted on 01/25/2018 1:15:56 PM PST by Paulie (America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

You heard it here first:

Illinois is planning a Bullet Train!


6 posted on 01/25/2018 1:32:27 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (All posts are /s, unless otherwise specified.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Watch it disappear into the politicians pockets!


8 posted on 01/25/2018 1:32:31 PM PST by W. (.44 Magnum. No further questions needed.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

No more Bike lanes, no more diverting funds for feel good crap and we can talk.


9 posted on 01/25/2018 1:38:29 PM PST by hadaclueonce ( This time I am Deplorable)
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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.

10 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.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Remember the Tobacco Cancer settlement to compensate “victims”...?

In Los Angeles nearly all that money went to repairing SIDEWALKS.


12 posted on 01/25/2018 1:56:09 PM PST by gaijin
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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.


13 posted on 01/25/2018 2:07:58 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

No it isn’t. Enough with the taxes.


15 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.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Raise the minimum wage then take it away by upping the gas prices!

EPIC SOCIALIST FAIL!


17 posted on 01/25/2018 2:31:11 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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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.


19 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)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“Let’s be more like Dimocrats and solve every problem with a tax increase!”

That’s an intellectually lazy approach.


26 posted on 01/29/2018 9:27:40 AM PST by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D. - What Would Jack Bauer Do?)
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