To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Texas drivers have gotten a cheaper-than-warranted ride for too long. The gas tax, a pairing of 18.4 cents in federal taxes and 20 cents in state taxes, has not been raised since 1991.Holy crap! They need to raise that tax just on principle! You can't have a tax stay static for that long! /s
4 posted on
04/07/2007 7:04:11 PM PDT by
T.Smith
To: T.Smith
But who’s going to trust a hike in the gas tax for road construction when only 55 percent of the present Texas gas tax is used for that?
To: T.Smith
Texas has historically had some of the best roads and bridges in the country. Now that we have so many foreigners moving here from places like CA and everwhere else, to say nothing of the influx of Mexicans, the roads simply can't keep up with it.
We do need a lot of new roads, and widening of the roads we have. We don't, IMHO need that stupid Trans-Texas corridor, though.
8 posted on
04/07/2007 7:09:46 PM PDT by
basil
To: T.Smith
Actually, Govenor Ann Richards raised the gas tax by a nickel per gallon, in her last year or two in office.....it may have been around 1994, I think.
14 posted on
04/07/2007 7:55:51 PM PDT by
2harddrive
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