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Agreed. Localities that want mass transit should subsidize it themselves. The gas tax should fund only expenses related to roads.
Politicians start taxing us for roads, divert the money elsewhere, and roads (SURPRISE) don’t have enough money. Possible solutions are:
1. Stop diverting the tax money.
2. Raise taxes.
Gee, I wonder which one is favored?
In Europe, things are even worse. $8 gas comes from having to pay for “free” single payer health care. We are “fortunate” gas taxes only pay for transportation-related expenses.
The work will be done with some of the revenues from increased tolls on truckers on the Indiana Toll Road.
Here in SE Virginia (Norfolk area) the Commonwealth (state) sold off the maintenance of two bridge tunnels to a foreign company called Elizabeth River Tunnels. The formerly free tunnels have become toll roads, and the tolls keep going up. And the contract is such that it cannot be gotten out of. Meanwhile, the entire region is suffering from reduced commerce due to the high tolls.
The federal government prohibits states or the federal government from establishing tolls on “existing” interstate highways so states add on to those interstates and then charge a toll which is apparently legal but makes no sense.
Doesn’t matter how much you tax fuels or any item for that matter because whatever the original tax is implemented for the funds collected will be used for whatever the azzholes in local, state and federal government want to use it for.
The state of California raised gas taxes and not a single dime is going for road repair. Either some other not needed project or for the most part for the fat pensions for state workers.
$1B to be invested in state infrastructure projects (9/4/18)
This is what is going on with the toll hike on trucks using the Indiana Toll Road.