[zeugma]

I see your point. The only thing is, in theory at least, transportation projects are only supposed to be funded with gas tax revenue. If the value of the tax per gallon is not maintained, you will in net be receiving less and less money with each passing year while the costs of projects increase due to inflation.

Ya. But until they stop stealing gas tax revenues for the bottomless pit of "education" and other purposes, there is no way in hell that I want them to be able to index the tax, because once a tax is indexed, it's a free tax increase for legislooters.

Also, legislooters are always complaining about there being so many more vehicles on the road and other such whining. Would seem to me that if there are more vehicles, that means more tax, yet they always claim to not have enough money for infrastructure, even as they steal the money for other projects.

Then there is the ongoing boondoggles of "mass transit", that is an abject failure everywhere in the state, yet they still pour endless amounts of money into it.

I'm sorry, but if they are going to want more money, they are going to have to be straightforward about it and not get regular increases from a stealth mechanism. Indexing taxes to inflation, (which is government created in the first place),  is wrong IMO.

[spikeytx86]

I totally agree that gas tax money should only be used for maintenance of roads and highways as well as any new roads or road expansions. That’s it. No raiding for pork barrel projects or to fund education (last I checked isn’t that why they also soak us in Property and Sales Taxes?).