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To: Nextrush

How do you propose to build new lanes without revenue?


9 posted on 02/16/2018 7:39:31 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

There are a lot of bureaucrats and agencies that need to be out of business for starters.

Rush Limbaugh conversed with Ed Gillespie when he worked for W Bush a decade or more ago about elimination of departments and Mr. Gillespie’s response....”That’s not going to happen” and so here we are 20 trillion in the hole as a nation and getting worse.


19 posted on 02/16/2018 11:26:49 PM PST by Nextrush (Freedom is everybody's business: Remember Pastor Niemoller)
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there was a time when Conservatives understood and supported the concept of the user fee. Lately we have an influx of entitled millenial wannabes who expect everything for free while still trying to pass themselves off as conservatives.
23 posted on 02/19/2018 5:17:52 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: FreedomPoster
How do you propose to build new lanes without revenue?

Georgia collected $20.814 billion in tax revenue in 2016 - Not like the government is lacking revenue The below is form the GA general budget summary:

Georgia’s Constitution requires spending revenue from the state’s tax on motor fuel only on public roads and bridges. The money is dedicated to a mix of new construction, maintenance on existing infrastructure and debt service on past investments. Lawmakers passed legislation in 2015 that significantly changed the way Georgia taxes motor fuel, raising the gas tax to 26 cents per gallon of gasoline and 29 cents per gallon of diesel fuel for an increase of 7 to 8 cents per gallon. The 2015 reforms also indexed the new rates to inflation and rising fuel efficiency, so that motor fuel collections can keep pace with changing consumer habits and economic trends. The higher tax results in an anticipated $1.66 billion in Motor Fuel Funds for the state’s budget for the 2017 fiscal year, a $657 million increase over the original 2016 budget. Also, all gas tax revenue now goes to the Department of Transportation, whereas some of it went to the state’s general fund under the prior system

Now come on tell us all again how Georgia needs toll revenue

27 posted on 02/20/2018 4:08:32 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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