The truckers incorrectly assume the tax hike money will be used to improve the roads. More than likely, it will be used to expand the welfare state.
Wonder where they found truckers dumb enough to ask for more fuel taxes, and dumb enough to believe the money will be used for roads?
We have a winner !!
You know exactly what will happen to it...down the bunny hole goes the cash to but votes of the indolent.
Yes, trust fund revenues are falling because of greater fuel efficiency (laughable in itself because much of that change and hence the revenue shortfall is the result of federal mandates). But why do we cling to this notion that the federal government has to provide the bulk of highway funding in the country?
If they want to make trust fund money go further at the state level, then repeal Davis Bacon that requires any road project with federal funds to pay union wages no matter the state, and get rid of the voluminous environmental regs and laws that make a mile of road in this country so prohibitively expensive. Or better yet, why don’t we eliminate federal fuel taxes on gas and Diesel and instead let the states decide their own highway levies and expenditures with no strings attached?
Ridiculous, raise taxes to cover a state and local obligation that we can’t keep up with anymore because of our own mandates.
Sucker truckers.
Or more likely, mass transit is some urban area.
Ding-Ding-Ding. We have a winner. You are exactly right. To the “RESONATED”: You are all smoking Crack if you think this money will go to roads and bridges.
Ding-Ding-Ding. We have a winner. You are exactly right. To the “RESONATED”: You are all smoking Crack if you think this money will go to roads and bridges.