Read my lips...
Thanks Tennessee. For nothing...
I thought we fixed the infrastructure with the last stimulus.
I know we’ve promised roads for tax increases about 20 time and reneged. But really, this time you’ll get some roads.
Trust us.
Too much of that money goes to “green” projects, not actual motor vehicle infrastructure. You get greenbelts (bike/walking/jogging paths), green space, commuter trains, commuter buses, commuting subsidies, etc... If the money collected in fuel/road taxes actually went to roads/bridges, we’d be fine.
Probably won’t happen, but I certainly prefer to pay, maybe, $100 more in a gas tax, than THOUSANDS more in tolls.
Others may think the other way, but the roads will be built, it’s only a question of how we pay for them and whether we want the kind of Crony Capitalism we’ve had to deal with here in Texas (i.e., private tollways, protected by the government).
Why not just go for $1.00 ,none will go for roads
This is because none of these dudes buy gasoline. someone else does it. Gas here was $3.89 today.
Both need to be voted out of office!!
Tax bicycles and running shoes not gasoline!!!
Unless these elected criminals give us a detailed accounting as to where and how the gas taxes of the last 20 years have been spent, they might as well p*** up a rope!
To say nothing of the Omugabe $1trillion "stimulus!"
We should have gold plated highways and bridges!
I’m a little fuzzy here. Could someone remind me why I should hold my nose and vote for a rhino?
When something is bipartisan, you know that the taxpayer is going to somehow get screwed.
Has taxes are high enough already. The government profits more than the eeeevil big oil companies. Enough is enough...
Raise fuel prices and it will do several things. Increase everyone’s cost for ALL goods, causes more unemployment, & DECREASES OVERALL TAX REVENUE due too tightened household and business budgets. So Senator Corker, which Tennessee or other contractors who win these construction bids are behind this?
Hell, just go for it all, let’s just double every damn tax in the entire government. Think of all the money they’ll have to ‘invest’!!!!
As of July 1, 2014: Rates for 3 toll roads just in the Seattle area.
Number of Axles
Pass/ Cash/ Pay By Mail
Two $4.50 $5.50 $6.50
Three $6.75 $8.25 $9.75
Four $9.00 $11.00 $13.00
Five $11.25 $13.75 $16.25
Six or more $13.50 $16.50 $19.50
Really? Raise taxes to pay for maintenance? My mother pays through the nose every time she leaves her house...and again when she returns returns. The Gov. is doing everything it can to suck money out of your pocket at EVERY turn.
Murphy, of Connecticut, said, “I know raising the gas tax isn’t an easy choice, but we’re not elected to make easy decisions — we’re elected to make the hard ones.”
I beg to differ! Raising taxes is always the easy way out. Actually cutting spending is the hard choice!
Rates on the privately-owned 407 ETR in Canada. Roughly 40 cents per mile. Think about that.
http://www.407etr.com/tolls/rate-chart-2014.html
Hasn’t the fund for roads, bridges, etc. been raided for other purposes?
They’re doing it to avoid laying off some of the more useful government employees—e.g., regulators. [Irony, sarcasm.]