Posted on 11/30/2004 9:54:10 PM PST by MarshallDillon
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UNLESS WE GET TX HB3588 AMENDED: Thousands of acres will be removed from county tax rolls in Texas, causing the burden to be shifted to all other properties for school finance. There is a big fat lie in the works at Tx DOT, where they claim not to have enough funds for growth. Our economic growth is indexed to the tax rates which traditionally gave plenty to the state's highways. If we neeed more money, it is far better to raise the gas tax 6-10 cents than to charge 10 cents a mile to drive on our existing highways. 10 cents per mile = $3.40 /gallon tax.
Any relation to the corridor the UN wants to build here?
Several years ago the Fed Tax on gas raised over 50 Billion$ per year, most year less than 30 Bill. was spent on highways. Rest went into Gen. Fund.
A corridor 1/4 mile wide would make a great nuke target (as in China or Russia in 2054), and that would shut down our trade with Latin America and paralyze half the country. Oil, water, frieght, people - all in one hit!
Hope we have missle defense then.
I can't believe it. My in-laws were visiting and told me the tolls were going in, but I assumed Texans would accept A toll highway. For new major road, temporary tolls sometimes makes sense, even with gas taxes--Texas has pretty low ones. But ALL toll highways...that is unacceptable and I hope Texans are up in arms about it.
I like user fees, but if they're going to toll all the highways, the Texas gas tax had better drop to nothing on a state level.
One thing I've noticed in Texas visits is that Texas isn't afraid to build roads. I was in Wichita Falls not long ago and I swear they have the freeway/beltway system of a town three times the size they actually are. 6PM I am cruising down a 3 lane thru the city basically alone.
Just caught this, too:
President Bush has threatened to veto any increase in the nation's 18.4¢ gasoline tax and has expressed support for tolls on interstate highways.
Seems like a great way to make Republicans look like jackasses. Let Texas run tolls on highways and then spend federal gas tax money on pork.
He'd better have another idea.
...and I thought I escaped "construction corruptiobn" when I left MA and moved back home to TX... :-(
FYI
Have you tried driving the High 5 intersection (I75 & LBJ) in Dallas? Or the roller coaster nightmare called the George Bush Tollway & I35 intersection north of Dallas? Did somebody ever tell the planners what happens when bridges get iced over in north Texas? Yee Haw!
Thankfully I am able to avoid DFW except once or twice a year and then only drive up there in the late spring or early fall when the weather is nice for being outside.
"You cannot go to Heaven or Hell without first passing through DFW." --- Kinky Freidman
Depending on God's judgement, you can find out quickly by driving over one of our new high-rise one-lane bridges.
I moved so I wouldn't EVER have to go over the 635 and 75 stairway to heaven!
We've already had a murder committed on the George Bush Tollway/I 35 intersection. Some loon stopped his car on one of the bridges, and threw his girl friend over the side. Eighty-five feet below she crashed into the windshield of a car, and the boy friend jumped after her. Fortunately, he didn't hit a car.
I remember that. Horrifying.
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