Are they purposely trying to crash the state's economy?
WTF?
Forgot to add.....fees from trucking licenses which are supposed to go toward roads instead go to the general fund. Part of the reason this is being pushed.
Don’t forget the increase in vehicle registration.
PA gas tax ping!
The current total combined gasoline taxes for Pennsylvania (State & Federal, excise & other) is 50.7¢/gal.
The highest in that nation is California at 71.6¢/gal.
I am sure your neighboring states will love to see you become the highest in the nation.
Let’s see...
Eastern PA drivers buying gas in NJ.
More perpetual road construction projects (the traffic cone is PA’s state tree)
More money for union bosses and political kickbacks
More money to feed corruption in the Turnpike Commission
What’s not to like?
Diesel too?
Now it will gas stations in DE that will see increased business. For years, PA and NJ have come shopping in DE - no sales tax. Occasionally, PA gestapo will stop shoppers on I-95 and confiscate the “evidence”. Solution - take US 13 to Marcus Hook and get on I-95 there.
Mafia-run slapdash paving contractors have a whole lotta pull in this state. As do public transit employee unions, whose members retire with lifelong pay and full benes at 52.
Political suicide for our GOP. If the game is now all about giving away candy, the Dems will always offer more.
“That could leave consumers paying up to 28 cents per gallon more, assuming distributors push their higher tax rates down the gas chain.”
It amazes me that politicians and their Media minions expect businesses to ‘absorb’ a tax and NOT pass it on to consumers in the form of increased prices. How many times have you read a remark like this when it comes to the increase of a business tax? Countless...