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To: anymouse
2. Raise the motor fuels tax by 8 cents and index it to inflation, using not the consumer price index, but a special highway construction index. The rate of inflation has been 1/2% to 1 1/2 percent per year.

BINGO!

3 posted on 12/09/2006 12:10:07 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (“Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.” —H. L. Mencken)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
2. Raise the motor fuels tax by 8 cents and index it to inflation, using not the consumer price index, but a special highway construction index. The rate of inflation has been 1/2% to 1 1/2 percent per year.

I prefer the toll road route, but if you're going to raise gas taxes this is the way to do it. The increase in prices of concrete and steel alone have far outpaced inflation. Even if your gas tax revenues increase, they're still buying less and less road.

4 posted on 12/09/2006 4:32:04 PM PST by VirginiaConstitutionalist
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