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Frozen federal tax on gasoline leading to more toll roads, higher state fuel taxes
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| May 20, 2007
| Jim Abrams
Posted on 05/23/2007 5:16:00 PM PDT by george76
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posted on
05/23/2007 5:16:01 PM PDT
by
george76
To: george76
LOL - Limbaugh is prescient. He has predicted these articles would arrive soon.
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posted on
05/23/2007 5:17:32 PM PDT
by
Ingtar
(...right wing conservatives are growing tired of crawling on bloody stumps looking for scraps - JRob)
To: conservative in nyc
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posted on
05/23/2007 5:17:52 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: FreeKeys
In Florida, with federal aid declining, more than 90 percent of new roads since the early 1990s have been toll roads, state Transportation Department spokesman Dick Kane said...
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posted on
05/23/2007 5:18:46 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: weegee; RebelTex
With the population of Texas increasing by 1,000 people a day, we as a state don’t really feel like we have an option to shelve projects or sit on our hands as the problems with the highway trust fund loom larger and come closer on the horizon, said Christopher Lippincott, a Texas Transportation Department spokesman.
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posted on
05/23/2007 5:20:15 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
This article is totally and completely 100% ass backwards. They need to be looking at reducing or eliminating gas taxes.
To: Ingtar
I’ve heard that some states are considering going from a per gallon gas tax to a mileage tax. Presumeably you would have to take your car to the DMV each year to have the odometer read to see how many miles you have driven, and then pay a tax on your mileage.
Cars today get better mileage than cars did 20 or 30 years ago. That’s part of the tax problem also I’m sure.
To: george76
>"The federal tax on a gallon of gas has not risen in 14 years"Boo Freakin Hoo!!!!!
Next thing they'll be tellin the one bout how consumption increases mean they actually have less money!
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posted on
05/23/2007 5:21:42 PM PDT
by
rawcatslyentist
(The liberty we prize is not America’s gift to the world, it is God’s gift to humanity.”GWB-03)
To: george76
their efforts to address traffic congestion
Toll some roads during the worst periods of rush hour. Watch the congestion lessen but rush hour spread out. Same number of roads just better utilization.
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posted on
05/23/2007 5:22:00 PM PDT
by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
To: Dilbert San Diego
Keep the hands of these assholes out of my pocket.
To: El Laton Caliente; thackney
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posted on
05/23/2007 5:26:47 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: P-40
Ehhh, I just want my flying car that they said I’d have by now in the 50’s.
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posted on
05/23/2007 5:27:00 PM PDT
by
rednesss
To: george76
I’m for abolishing the federal fuel tax. That way money can’t be siphoned off to build more “Big Digs” in Massachusetts.
To: Dilbert San Diego
No it’s more Orwellian than that, they are doing a pilot program with GPS receivers that track your every move then transmit that information to the State. Soon after that you’ll start receiving tickets in the mail because they will be able to tell every time you exceeded the speed limit - every time. Welcome big brother.
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posted on
05/23/2007 5:31:20 PM PDT
by
rednesss
To: george76
Notice that state taxes on gas are typically twice what the federal taxes are. But there’s a limit to what State A’s taxes can be if neighboring states are much lower — people near the borders will just gas up across the border
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posted on
05/23/2007 5:33:53 PM PDT
by
SauronOfMordor
(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymLJz3N8ayI">Open Season</a> rocks)
To: george76
how about the fact that “road building” is tied to union wages. until this is changed no new roads.
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posted on
05/23/2007 5:36:12 PM PDT
by
camas
To: SauronOfMordor
People who live near borders often have a strategy worked out.
They do their shopping for food, gas, etc. in the low sales taxes states...then live in low property tax states.
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posted on
05/23/2007 5:38:10 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: Paleo Conservative; traviskicks
We all will be paying for Teddy’s big dig for decades yet.
more leaks, falling ceilings, etc...
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posted on
05/23/2007 5:39:54 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
We don’t more federal taxes. Let each of the states show us what they’re worth.
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posted on
05/23/2007 5:40:07 PM PDT
by
familyop
(cbt. engr. (cbt.--has been))
To: SauronOfMordor
theres a limit to what State As taxes can be if neighboring states are much lower
When I lived in South Texas we'd just go across the border. Now I'm in Central Texas and it is a good day's drive to another state's border.
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posted on
05/23/2007 5:44:46 PM PDT
by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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