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.
I agree that those particular roads should be repaired. However, Prop 1 is all or nothing. Highway construction is rife with fraud top to bottom and I don’t trust Texas politicians any more than those in DC so will still urge everyone I know to vote NO on Prop 1.