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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The Contra Costa Times is invoking the Gipper to support something that I’m not ready to accept.

The federal tax is collected at the refinery. Cost to collect the tax is about $0.009, less than a penny of tax administrative cost per dollar of tax collected.

Because Congress is afraid to raise the tax, alternative means of raising highway repair funds are in the works, most notably the Vehicle Miles Traveled tax (VMT).

The cost to collect VMT is about 20 cents on the dollar. It is a wildly inefficient way to raise funds for federal road repairs.

VMT has one advantage, though, reps in Congress don't have to make a direct vote in favor of raising taxes.

5 posted on 01/25/2015 11:27:06 PM PST by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

I cannot accept a federal gas tax increase, because about 25 percent of it goes to mass transit — which, until the 1960s, was mostly a private affair — as well as bike paths, beautification and local road projects that shouldn’t see a lick of federal subsidies.

I think that states and private companies are in a much better position to deal with transportation than the federal government, which cannot balance the budget, even to save us from economic and societal collapse.

There is a bill in Congress that would radically reduce the federal gas tax and hand most transportation responsibilities back to the states. It’s a good start.


10 posted on 01/25/2015 11:50:41 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Je suis Charlie, you miserable Islamist throwbacks!)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

One would think that if our bright and valuable functionaries of government would spend half as much time on their jobs we put them there for as they do in creating and inventing new ways to tax us without blame to them, we’d all be better off.


21 posted on 01/26/2015 2:39:20 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: gunsequalfreedom
The federal tax is collected at the refinery.

I thought that was done at the point of retail sale to the end users. We still import some gasoline and gasoline blending products that would not enter a refinery.

32 posted on 01/26/2015 5:36:14 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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