Wouldn’t it be better for Texas to stop all those diversions to DPS, etc. first and have a Constitutional amendment to stop the diversion to the public skrools? I’m sure you can’t be too happy about teachers unions sucking money out of your gas tank.
“Wouldn’t it be better for Texas to stop all those diversions to DPS, etc. first and have a Constitutional amendment to stop the diversion to the public skrools? I’m sure you can’t be too happy about teachers unions sucking money out of your gas tank.”
You’re darn right...but that only gets us a nickel. We still need more like 20 cents to get enough budget to start building and expanding freeways. But yes, 5 cents is a start, and so would indexing the tax to the cost of doing the work. But when you have a toll-road driven governor, why bother taking the political heat for all that, just charge like crazy on anything new and claim it’s just for drivers paying the road (when, in truth, they’re paying for that road at least 4 times over...to make up for the lack of a realistic gas tax and other social programs).