Except that fuel taxes actually pay for the roads that people use.
This guy is a deadbeat by trying to avoid paying for a service he actually uses.
There are plenty of bad, redistributive taxes out there, but fuel taxes are some of the most fair taxes you'll find.
Okay. Cyclists use the roads too. Why aren’t bicycle riders also charged a tax. Deadbeats.
Not in NC.
“This guy is a deadbeat by trying to avoid paying for a service he actually uses.”
Was he trying to avoid paying taxes or was he taking “a stand against US dependence on foreign oil,” “thumbing [his] nose at oil sheiks,” like it says in the article? You’re a deadbeat if you want to try to do a little something to reduce our dependence on Arab oil?
Snicker. All of the money the government collects goes into the same pot and is then spent on various things. Targeted taxes are a shell game. As are so called user fees when collected by the government.
My wife's job pays the mortgage & mine pays the taxes and insurance? Not hardly. It all goes into the same place and then dispensed as desired.
Pay a tax on fuel you make yourself? How paying taxes on the food you grow [for your own use] in your own garden?
The only thing this is about is government's insatiable need for revenue.
So much for “freedom from foreign oil”, you knew it was a scam all along, right? Fuel taxes are the sacred cash cow of state and fed gov’ts. As to going for highway construction and maintenance, another scam, most of it slips thru the cracks : special interest groups and rich lawyers pockets. As they said in watergate : follow the money...
Not in Kahlifoania.
LOLOL!!!!! BWHAHAHAHA...(wiping eyes)
NC has one of the highest gas taxes on the East Coast (right on .30), one of the highest income taxes in the nation, and we have just added a stupid tax (lottery). And yet our roads are worsening, the education system is falling apart here in central NC, and the cops are cracking down even harder on speeders and seat belt violators (roadside tax) because we're running short according to our legislature.
Tell me another one about 'fair' taxes in this state.