Posted on 12/07/2018 3:20:12 AM PST by Libloather
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And according to a panel of transportation experts, the problem will only get worse in the future unless the state begins to better fund investments in its transportation system.
"We're behind, to be perfectly frank," said IDOT Secretary Randy Blankenhorn, one of the panelists. "We are not funding transportation as well as some of our neighbors and as our competitors. ... I spend $250 a month on my phone. I spend $50 a month for water. This is the infrastructure of my life. It's what I need to make things happen. And we're spending 50 cents a day on transportation. And, honestly, it's inadequate."
To help fix the chronic funding problem, an increase in the state gas tax, which has not been raised since 1990, and vehicle registration fees will be inevitable, Blankenhorn said.
Blankenhorn said such an increase would provide "revenue necessary to maintain, enhance, modernize our system. That's the conversation that we need to have."
(Excerpt) Read more at thesouthern.com ...
The place is really falling apart. Rahm got out just in time.
That’s what happened with the last income tax increase from 3% to 5%.
He may be leaving office, but he’ll still be screwing Chicago.
http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/?m=1
Scroll down for “And the Corruption Continues”
IDOT - Is that missing an “I”?
And with the Laffer Curve applying, my bet is this won’t make as much money as they think it will.
He overspends for a phone so everyone's taxes should go up. Exactly the kind of fiscal genius I want making tax policy.
So his conclusion is that everyone should pay a lot more for the roads based on his inability to budget his ridiculous personal behavior. Talk about disconnected from reality. You get the Government you deserve Illinois.
I was just thinking the same thing!!!
Yellow vest protests on the way!
Our commie leaders will learn from the France uprising. Just raise taxes a little at a time. Kinda like cooking a frog.
Illinois pays huge amounts in taxes that go in the pockets of hacks.
Tax dollars go to liberal causes in Chicago as the rest of the state gets squat.
Drive around the southern part of the state that is ignored and see how poorly the roads are cause all the tax money goes for horse crap in the big liberal city.
Maybe they haven’t been watching the news about what’s happening in France......
They need to have checkpoints at the borders to make sure drivers don’t get gas out of state. Amateurs.
In Illinois the Laffer curve means that the more state government promises to repair and maintain the roads the more the taxpayers laugh. We know they aint doing it and they have a fifty or sixty year record to prove it.
Of course it is. Also, a 50% increase in income tax would do wonders as well. After all it's working out so well for Macron in France.
Yellow Vests coming to Springfield...
I read somewhere that a politician complained “we have so many more cars on the road we need to increase the gas tax”
Question: If there are so many more cars on the road aren’t they already collecting a lot more tax money? Extra cars means more gallons of gas used that is taxed.
He overspends for a phone so everyone's taxes should go up. Exactly the kind of fiscal genius I want making tax policy.
Yup. Morons abound everywhere. Also, if he's spending that much on his phone bill, it's likely the majority of that bill isn't actually for phone service, but is because he feels the need to get a new phone every 2 years, which he's financing through his phone vendor. Again, it's poor funds management, and he shouldn't think that gives him any insight into transportation budgets.
My phone bill is less than $70/mo, and that's for 2 lines.
Well, the claim is that because newer cars get better gas mileage, that they are actually losing revenue. Of course, that doesn't take into account the fact that most (by far) vehicles sold today are trucks and SUVs. Also, the wear and tear you get on roads from autos is negligible. It's the big rigs that cause most of the wear, and they already pay a heck of a lot to support the infrastructure.
The biggest problem that I've seen is that when a dollar's worth of "infrastructure" money comes into most states, about 20¢ gets spent on actual infrastructure (if you're lucky).
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