[Muleteam1]

In this New Mexico-bordering Texas panhandle county, no one could operate a gas station profitably in the County if the State raised gasoline taxes as are being proposed. The high Texas sales tax rates already have many of us driving to New Mexico for gasoline and groceries. Personally I'm tired of paying over $2800 a year for less than $80,000 worth of commercial and residential property that has not appreciated in the past twenty years. We also are one of the few Texas counties that has a personal property tax on vehicles. A new vehicle can cost $500 or more a year, and this does not include the regular Texas registration and inspection fees.

More Texas taxes? Maybe Austin should just vote to reverse the "e" and the "a" in the State's name.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

From Ben Ficklin:

So, if the 5 of 20 cents currently going to schools were restored to highways, the gas tax would only need to be raised by 1 cent and then indexed. The legislature then has to find a way to replace the 5 cents/gallon going to schools.