Gas tax will add 10 cents per gallon starting Thursday (snip) - Pennsylvania

Penn Live ^ | 12/29/15 | Jan Murphy

[P.O.E.]

Full title: Gas tax will add 10 cents per gallon starting Thursday; registrations, licenses, inspections also increase.

Thanks Corbett! /s

[P.O.E.]

Forgot to hit the “excerpt” button. More at link.

[MeshugeMikey]

what a thoughtful pioneering move.....

[lightman]

Gotta pay for all the “structurally deficient” bridge replacement projects.

Burn more (and higher( gas using detours to replace bridges, sometimes for no reason other than the sidewalks aren’t up to current ADA specs.

[NormsRevenge]

Politicos get cheaper by the dozen, the rest of us pay and pay and pay.

[alstewartfan]

Thanks Tom Corbett! This idiotic bill helped usher Communist empty suit Tom Wolf into the governor’s mansion. Corbett should have had the decency to step down to “spend more time with his family”, and not run for a second term.

[Red Badger]

Way to go Pennsylvania! Tax all those evil oil companies to death!.............[do I really need a /s tag?]............

[SandRat]

[GraceG]

Price of gas goes down, add more gas tax, this is all just price control via taxation...

[knarf]

I'm gonn'a cut him some slack on this one.

I think, HE thought, with the gas industry ensconced in Pa and a few more dollars in a LOT of people's pockets, the dime, though exorbitant, was not to be THAT grievous and would help ease some of PA's financial woes.

We STILL have out of control pension plans that WILL be paid ... not that there is a will to pay them ... but that PA (and indeed most of the US) does not have the guts to stand up to and fight the unions that WILL fight for "their" money

[Blue Jays]

Heaven forbid prices be allowed to come down to reasonable levels for many people to benefit.
Big Government^TM now to the rescue with more taxes and fees!

[MrB]

Well, it “makes sense”, if you’re a “government owns everything” type of person,

that if the gas price goes down, the consumers should pay the difference to the government.

After all, discretionary spending money in the hands of individuals won’t be spent correctly.

[kiryandil]

The PA Demopubs/Republicrats are on the Pennsylvania taxpeasants like a horny bullfrog...

RIBBIT!

[RaceBannon]

it is under $2 in SC now

It was 2.75 Christmas eve in PA

[TurboZamboni]

As gas prices plummet, statists everywhere will seize this opportunity to plunder while they can ‘sell’ it to the gullible sheeple as absolutely necessary.

Then they'll go about wasting it on trains,bike paths and other ‘sustainable’ bullcrap.

[HamiltonJay]

Republicans raised it under Ridge and Corbett... Republicans controlled both houses and governorship both times...

Fast Eddie was a crook, but the reality is in PA, republicans have raised the gas tax every time they have had complete control since I lived in this state.

[HamiltonJay]

THis happened long before the gas prices “plumetted” is just the next step in a bill that passed years ago, this was going to happen no matter what price gas was at the pump.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Oh here comes Gov Wolfie...he can’t WAIT to take over and turn Western PA into Southern NewYork State (a “green” anti fracking paradise). Look for our unemployment rate to soar (and have yet another RustBelt Exodus) when MOST good paying oilfield jobs go to OH and WV...then comes the down turn in the service related oil jobs (trucking, specialty steel, pipe fitters, welders, etc...YET many unions supported Wolf over Corbett).

Pennsylvania, snatching poverty from the hand of prosperity.

[Blue Jays]

Exactly...legislators don't want people to truly see lower fuel prices in the marketplace because they know we will see it CAN be done.

To their mind, they want to see gas at $3.00 gallon.
That way, if new technology is discovered that makes it truly cost $0.50 per gallon at the pump, they will find a way to boost it back up with $2.50 worth of new taxes.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

You are 1000% correct. We DONT have RINOS we have “TrojanDems.”