Texas Rep. Drew appears to be RINO Speaker Joe Straus's point man to get a gasoline tax hike without ending diversions of the tax for non-transportation purposes.
can’t they just import some Mexicans to fix the roads?
Taxing the public to the hilt who commute to and from a JOB while the 49% sit on their azzes and buy dope with Obama Bucks.
I guess we here in Texas have a choice: Pay 20 cents more per gallon in the gas tax, or pay 20 cents PER MILE to drive on highways - because either way, WE WILL GET CHARGED.
They have simply to stop hiring ex-used car salesmen as government bureaucrats. It is not only ineffective, but lowers the estimation and credibility of politicians and bureaucrats generally.
Texas Rep. Drew appears to be RINO Speaker Joe Straus's point man to get a gasoline tax hike without ending diversions of the tax for non-transportation purposes.
That is the essence of ANY meaningful discussion about funding highway construction and maintenance.
HIDING TAX INCREASES DISHONESTLY SHOULD BE A CRIMINAL FELONY WITH MANDATORY 20 YEARS IMPRISONMENT.
That would be EVERY individual who conspires in the attempt
Perhaps a better way would be to allow metro and counties to impose their own gas tax rather than punishing everyone (especially rural areas) with a uniform raise of the tax.
An even better solution, may be to cut government more to pay for and prioritize transportation without raising taxes?
there are two problems - the diversions and the amount returned to TX by the feds from our gas tax payments. On the last part I think the last highway bill got TX to about 75 cents. If we got a nickel more that would be 600 million every year. The same with a gas tax, if 100% when to the highways, ever nickel returned would if combined with the feds over one billion dollars - more than enough to fix our roads.