What the hell are they doing with the gas taxes they collect from us already????
General Revenue...
Well, our ‘conservation’ of energy has cost the government alot of dough. Consider the public drove 30B less miles from Nov 07 to May 08. The fed alone lost .184 cents a gallon. You do the math.
In May 08, 49,000 heavy vehicles were idle when 1000 trucking companies went out of business. (49,000 times $550 loss on 2290’s alone)
As a owner of a small transportation company, we’ve watched the ‘excessive excise’ taxes we pay get wasted and abused. Each year we pay Federal Highway Use Taxes (2290) that are supposed to go to highway bills, but only 11% of that revenue go to infrastructure projects. (Don’t get me started on the 12.5% excise tax) I’m not complaining about having to pay the tax but it’s excessive when it goes to pay for things such as a ‘Woodstock Museum’! And now they want MORE?
Any candidate that would demand that taxes collected for a specific purpose would only go for that purpose and nothing else would win in a landslide!
Dont know what your state does. The wonderful state of Wisconsin, with it dumicrat governor, decided to spend a large portion on bike trails. Yep, bike trails. Hell, we still have pot holes from the harsh winter. Crazy, isnt it?
Building toll booths.