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Five Reasons Not to Raise the Gas Tax
The Huffington Post ^
| July 3, 2014
| Randal O'Toole
Posted on 07/05/2014 8:12:09 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Is there MORE Than ONE????????????????????
To: Dr. Sivana
Devil’s advocate here: how does one account for electric car usage? At some point this will be an issue. Personally I am for a libertarian view: abolish the tax an impose tolls. If you use it, pay for it. If you wish to drive on state roads they tax me enough.
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posted on
07/05/2014 9:03:02 AM PDT
by
Vermont Lt
(If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
To: shotgun
They finally waive the sales tax on road construction in Washington State.That's good to hear. Such sales taxes are just another way to plunder transportation funds for other purposes. At least here, in Maryland, they just outright steal the money; the thievery is more honest than with a sales tax ruse.
To: Vermont Lt
The cost of toll booth operation is extremely high and inefficient. More efficient systems require tracking (ipass). Putting tolls on every publoc road would make those problems worse.
For electric cars, there could be a special charge either on the home meter for Leaf type cars, or at recharge stations for CA and Tesla type cars. Nike the sibsidy before you worry about collecting those.
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posted on
07/05/2014 9:41:16 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("If you're litigating against nuns, you've probably done something wrong."-Ted Cruz)
To: Dr. Sivana
The cost of toll booth operation is extremely high and inefficient useful for employing legions of unionized workers who will donate to and vote for Democrats.
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posted on
07/05/2014 9:43:17 AM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Toxic Baraq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
To: Dr. Sivana
Gas taxes are a proxy for mileage taxation.
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posted on
07/05/2014 9:54:17 AM PDT
by
ctdonath2
("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun" - Obama, setting RoE with his opposition)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
We rebuilt our waste water treatment plant ($19.4 M) and the building permit was $100,000 which supposedly covered plan reviews and all the required inspection time. As the public works director I challenged that cost as the funding agencies didn’t allow for permit costs but it did allow for inspections. So we paid the permit up front out of existing sewer reserves and each month the submitted the inspection costs for reimbursement. At the end of the project we only had actual costs of less than $30,000.
That caused the city to re-examine their permit fees!
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posted on
07/05/2014 10:09:21 AM PDT
by
shotgun
To: ctdonath2
Gas taxes are a proxy for mileage taxation.
With a LOT more privacy. Also, heavy cars and trucks that tend to wear on the road more wind up paying more taxes as they also tend to require more gas per mile.
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posted on
07/05/2014 10:19:22 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("If you're litigating against nuns, you've probably done something wrong."-Ted Cruz)
To: Dr. Sivana
Thing is, there’s no gas tax on non gas cars. My electric runabout car pays no taxes (worse, state pays me a lot to use it).
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posted on
07/05/2014 11:04:30 AM PDT
by
ctdonath2
("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun" - Obama, setting RoE with his opposition)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
THIS came from Huffington post???
That person needs to refresh their resume immediately and have it printed out Monday morning.
They even committed the grievous sin of contradicting dear leader. Every other speech is about “our crumbling roads and bridges” even after the trillions of dollars on “shovel ready” stimulus spending.
To: ctdonath2
Thing is, theres no gas tax on non gas cars. My electric runabout car pays no taxes (worse, state pays me a lot to use it).
I know. But as I said earlier, until we stop subsidizing the purchase of said cars, it is a trifle to worry about the gas taxes.
If you drive a Prius, you are still ultimately getting all your initial energy from gasoline, and paying gas tax.
If you drive a Leaf, you are maxing out at 75 miles per day, or 54 cents per day MAX (2.5 gallons for such a small car), that turns out to over 14,000 days (over 40 years) of driving just to offset the $8,000 subsidy. Few drive Leaves that much.
If you drive a Tesla, at least right now with such a lack of recharging stations (which could also collect gas taxes) you might go 200 miles a day, or about $1.80 per day [10 gallons @ 20 mpg]), which means the subsidy pays for 10 years of driving.
Right now, it is not a big problem. The states are making it one because they want another spigot to tap. It won't be fueling tax OR mileage tax. It will be fuel tax AND mileage tax.
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posted on
07/05/2014 11:55:31 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("If you're litigating against nuns, you've probably done something wrong."-Ted Cruz)
To: Organic Panic
It’s not all one sided.
You must remember the true goal of progressives is to get us out of our personal vehicles and into public transpo.
So letting the roads go to he!! is a good approach to accomplish that.
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posted on
07/05/2014 11:56:19 AM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Toxic Baraq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
To: Organic Panic
Don't judge a book by its cover.
Try this site if you have an aversion to HufPost. It's conservative.
Randal O'Toole doesn't control where his articles get posted.
To: Organic Panic
Sorry, wrong article.
My apologies.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
He forgot to mention that higher taxes on gas has a trickle down effect of causing consumer goods to go up in price. Someone has to pay to get the goods to market and the businesses will pass it along to the consumer.
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posted on
07/09/2014 8:31:19 AM PDT
by
rfreedom4u
(Your feelings don't trump my free speech!)
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