Illinois residents could be charged $1,000 a year to own an electric vehicle under new legislation

Fox News ^ | May 11,2019 | By David Aaro |

[Chickensoup]

Boy I have found otherwise.

Trains in the northeast are old, dirty and noisy. they just are so limiting today in a world of suburbs and exburbs. The more abailbe buses are the less the road congestion, big comfortable interstate buses are worth every penny and run for a fraction of the costs of rail.

We have a remarkable private inter city bus system up here that goes to airports and has local as well as non stop service. It is just begining to grow, I wish it well. It coompetes with public funded trains and does really well.

[mewzilla]

Sutton’s Law.

[GOPsterinMA]

Hey Nikki...https://youtu.be/FkQxB5IoLnE

[Vaduz]

Thanks

[zeugma]

There’s nothing stupid about paying road use taxes. Money to maintain roads has to come from somewhere, that’s a pretty basic government function. If you’re not paying it in gas tax, paying a road maintenance tax in another way is completely reasonable, even to conservatives, or should be.

On the surface, this actually sounds reasonable and proper. The problem is, money is fungible. The powers that be area constantly appropriating the money intended for roads and infrastructure to other purposes. All the money goes into one big pot, and is doled out as desired by politicians. If there were some way to guarantee that the revenues from gas and similar taxes was actually used for infrastructure, I'd agree with you 100%. Unfortunately, the reality is that in most states only a fraction of gas revenue actually supports infrastructure spending.