Kentuckians Could Learn a Thing or Two from Georgia

ATR ^ | 2011-06-28 | Nathan Lichtman

[92nina]

...After the problematic gas rationing of the late 1970s, Kentucky levied their gas tax based on the wholesale prices of gasoline. They use three months worth of data to tax the following three months. The data now says that Kentucky must increase the gas tax by 1.9-cents to 27.8-cents a gallon – even though prices have drastically fluctuated since. With the federal tax, this totals over 46-cents a gallon in taxes. According to GasBuddy.com, the average Kentuckian pays $3.528 a gallon without the increase. As recent as 2008, Kentuckians were paying less than $2 a gallon. Georgia has a similar story. They too normally use these monitoring techniques to automatically change their gas prices. Georgians are paying an average of $3.471 a gallon. And, similar to the trends in Kentucky, Georgia’s average gas cost in 2008 was below $2 a gallon. The automatic tax hike, set to take place on July 1, would increase this tax by 1.6-cents to 22-cents per gallon...

Read more: http://www.atr.org/kentuckians-learn-thing-two-georgia-a6290#ixzz1Qh5ejf8k

[92nina]

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal freezes his state's gas tax. Kentucky Gov. Beshear should do the same. Gas prices that automatically go up are punitive.

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[WKUHilltopper]

LOL...KY’s governor? Proactive? LOL!!

You’d think he would have lead a major revamping of the complete tax system—as a means to lure CA companies to the state so they could escape major CA tax burdens. But NOOOOOOO....wouldn’t want to do that. It’s too close to squirrel season.