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To: Willie Green

I can still remember why gasoline is taxed when you buy it at the pump ...

“TO BUILD AND MAINTAIN ROADS.”


5 posted on 03/31/2010 8:12:12 AM PDT by OldNavyVet (One trillion days, at 365 days per year, is 2,739,726,027 years ... almost 3 billion years.)
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To: OldNavyVet
I can still remember why gasoline is taxed when you buy it at the pump ...
“TO BUILD AND MAINTAIN ROADS.”

State lotteries - To fix roads and reduce property taxes.

10 posted on 03/31/2010 8:18:03 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: OldNavyVet
“TO BUILD AND MAINTAIN ROADS.”

NC has one of the highest state gas taxes in the nation. State pols raided the highway fund long ago for other pet projects....

18 posted on 03/31/2010 9:02:33 AM PDT by wbill
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