Posted on 03/08/2005 7:37:49 AM PST by Cat loving Texan
As it should be.
I do have to squint.
I hope they don't start taxing the air we breath. LOL
Pretty good.
For your penance you make sure you work double overtime and contribute all that excess money you have no need for and see to it that all those deserving poor are given double their due handouts.
heck - what am I talking about? That happens now as it is.........and these tax increases just add to it.
The danger is real....
"Nominee No. 5: [Bloomberg News Service]: A terrible diet and a room with no ventilation are being blamed for the death of a man who was killed by his own gas emissions.
There was no mark on his body, and an autopsy showed large amounts of methane gas in his system. His diet had consisted primarily of beans and cabbage (and a couple of other things). It was just the right combination of foods. It appears that the man died in his sleep from breathing the poisonous cloud that was hanging over his bed. Had he been outside or had his windows been opened, it wouldn't have been fatal. But the man was shut up in his nearly-airtight bedroom.
According to the article, "He was a big man with a huge capacity for creating "this deadly gas." Three of the rescuers got sick, and one was hospitalized."
DoD or DoT?
Thanks
Good catch. I was in a hurry. TxDoT had a 'town meeting' here last week. I'm looking for the link. Thanks.
Works for me.
"Under the new version, a 3 percent snack tax — which lawmakers included specifically to target obesity — would be added to the general sales tax charged for those items."
Hm...wonder what these ding-dongs (pun intended) are going to do with the money? It is just more social engineering, with the money going to government to do as they please. The only way they could clear themselves of this idiocy is to decrease the amount of tax on - say - diet drinks and bottled water. Do not really think that is going to happen!
I think a better tax - which would raise more money - would be to levy a stupidity tax on politicians who come up with this idiocy.
Deep in the heart of TEX-ASS! How do we tax the obesity of the pimps of the election industry, namely elected officials?
Let me know as if they do this then to get to my property at Canyon Lake I'll have to start taking the back roads.
Thanks
Here's the text if you don't want to subscribe.
Tolls planned for a wider U.S. 281
Web Posted: 03/02/2005 12:00 AM CST
Patrick Driscoll
Express-News Staff Writer
State officials announced Tuesday they have figured out how to get money quicker to widen U.S. 281 from northern San Antonio through Comal County ? and the answer is by charging tolls.
Murmurs rolled through a crowd of more than 200 people when the idea was mentioned at the public meeting at Specht Elementary School.
Texas Department of Transportation officials said that, if studies show the tolls are feasible, construction would start in three to seven years to add six toll lanes to U.S. 281 in Bexar County from Stone Oak Parkway to Borgfeld Road and two free lanes in Comal County from the Guadalupe River to FM 306.
Work would start in eight to 13 years to extend those six toll lanes from Borgfeld Road all the way to FM 306 at the Blanco County line.
The stretch of highway would end up with six tolled express lanes and four lanes of free frontage roads. Drivers would have the option of paying tolls or putting up with traffic and signal lights.
"It's just a user fee that you can choose to use or not," said Judy Friesenhahn, an engineer in TxDOT's San Antonio office.
For planning purposes, officials assume the user fee will be 15 cents a mile. And the toll wouldn't be lifted after the road is paid for ? extra money after that would be used for other projects.
Some chuckles erupted from the audience when that news was given.
The officials said the tolls would help because funds for the first phase of the $226 million project wouldn't be available for another 12 years and the rest of the money hasn't been earmarked in a budget.
The 38.4-cent-per-gallon gas tax and vehicle registration fees don't suffice, Friesenhahn said.
"There's not enough tax money to build these lanes in a timely fashion," she told the crowd.
People attending the meeting weren't allowed to ask questions or make comments in an open forum, but instead were asked to talk to officials one on one or submit written statements. Opinions varied among those milling around the room after the state's presentation.
Dave Pavey of Bulverde said he's been going to public meetings since 2001 to discuss the U.S. 281 project.
"I haven't heard anyone here at any of these meetings ask for a toll road or a six-lane expressway going through the back of their community," he said.
Jonathan Goff, who lives in the Stone Oak area, said toll roads were convenient when he lived in Dallas, and he would gladly pay to use them here.
"For a buck a day, it's less than I spend at Starbucks," he said.
Here's the link-
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA030205.3B.toll_lanes.f9017e74.html
GIDDY UP!!!
WE need to be taxed more.
Jonathan Goff, who lives in the Stone Oak area, said toll roads were convenient when he lived in Dallas, and he would gladly pay to use them here. "For a buck a day, it's less than I spend at Starbucks," he said.
Then I say he should go back to Dallas.
I'm sorry for laughing................well, no, actually I'm not.
BWAAAA HAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAa
No we don't need to be taxed more.....politicians need to be taxed into oblivion.
AND Sara Lee -- nobody doesn't like Sara Lee!
I feel like a slacker. My taxes need to be higher.
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