Posted on 10/18/2014 5:47:16 PM PDT by thetallguy24
I'm leaning vote no. Force Joe Straus and his cronies to stop putting bandaids everywhere and deal with it.
I am all for raiding the rainy day fund until it is dry. Otherwise, the federal government will see it as a big pile of money to be raided (by hook or by crook) to use as they please. Like bailing out bankrupt states run by confiscate and spend liberals. No thank you. If you’re not going to return it to the taxpayer, I say bleed it dry.
NO as well here.....
that rainy day might just be for Ebola care, cleaning of apartments, hospitals, for just one or two people.
What if we have dozens? we will need that “rainy day fund”
I vote no and suggested to all the family that they vote no as well.
Good .... share facts with everyone you know. Stay Safe !!
The proposal by TX Attorney General Abbott (soon to be Governor), linked to in the final paragraph, makes more sense to address the issue of transportation funding in TX while maintaining the integrity and original purpose of the Rainy Day Fund.
Thanks for posting this useful information that presents both sides of the argument.
Don’t thank me. Thank the very few people who actually cover Texas politics like these guys. We need more like them.
For later.....
Vote no. The rainy day fund is for emergencies and not known and continuing needs or wants. When the Great Recession hit, the majority of the states had to borrow money from the US to pay unemployment. Later they had to pay the money back and jack up their unemployment deduction rates.
The jerks in Austin are drooling over the fund and we could expect that once raided the fund would be drained dry for foolish, wasteful and unnecessary projects.
One positive with moving a chunk of the Rainy Day Fund, will be the pols will then not have such a scrumptious sugarplum to long for and there would be just enough left in the Rainy Day Fund to fund actual rainy days.
I pretty much like the gas tax remaining behind the times. If highway funding stays below need, at some point the gas tax is going to be put into play.
Most Counties extra charge the heavy haulers, which is primarily Oil and Gas, for extra wear and tear on County roads. I am not sure if the State does the same, tapping these oil and gas tax revenues for roads will in effect do that.
As long as we have Joe Strauss or another like him, we will have his dirty little raids on any money pot he sees. Prop 1 will neither hinder or help that problem.
I will be voting “No” on that.
Sent the article to everyone on my email list who lives in Texas - and to my state Congressman and Senator, both of whom strongly support the Amendment and asked them all to please vote NO!
that rainy day might just be for Ebola care, cleaning of apartments, hospitals, for just one or two people.
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I don’t see such activity as the responsibility of the State.
I hope and pray that the RINO Commie Joe Straus is not back next year.
The Rainy Day fund is filled by Gas/Oil taxes. At this time it is very full.
I vote we use some of the extra money in the Rainy Day fund to fix/add new roads.
In Houston where we have major issues with the roads this would help all of us
As best as I can tell, and they do a good job of hiding it, roads got killed back in the 90s because they took a boatload of money from roads and gave it to HHS. Hard to recover from years of almost total neglect.
Voting no, if they get their hands on the money they'll just squander it.
Not that they won't get their hands on the money and squander it anyway but I'd prefer not to make it easier for them.
I don't think it is either but it may end up having to be if we have dozens of Ebola case or hundreds?
Or they could use the oil and gas revenue to build a fence, just sayin’.
SS1
Many of the roads that would be funded by using severance taxes are county roads that have been decimated by the heavy traffic generated by the fracking boom. You should see how bad the damage is. Considering it is precisely these oil and gas fields that have impacted the infrastructure, I think it is appropriate for some of the tax revenue generated by oil and gas severance taxes be used to fix those roads.
Umm...but like that article said, didn’t TxDot try to pass all that off on local governments?
They may try it again.
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