It's pretty safe to say that Spencer Black is not the sharpest knife in the
drawer. And I have been yelling at him ever since he first introduced this
idiotic proposal. When he got Rep. Bock, whom I know better, to co-sponsor
it, I took him to task as well. I made the same argument as Paul, i.e.,
instead of getting rid of the indexing, require the extra dough to go to
alternative transportation. There cannot be such a thing as a bad gas tax
increase!!!!
The reality is that the highwaymen always figure out some way to get their
money. So if there is less in the highway budget, they will steal a little
more from money that would otherwise go to social services or some useful
project. And, lo and behold, let's see how many GOP votes there are for
increasing spending on social needs now that Spencer Black, the "champion of
lower taxes," has effectively cut spending for social services. Thanks a
lot, Spence. Put your dunce cap on.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul T. O'Leary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Darin Burleigh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Bikies] gas tax indexing
From: Darin Burleigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Rep. Black's argument is that forcing the legislature to debate
the increase in gas tax every year means they will have to justify
the cost/benefit every road-building project. Which I'm in favor of
(instead of just having a big pot of money to throw at the road-building
lobby).
Easy fix for that. Put the revenue from the automatic increase into a pot
for alternative trans, instead of the pot of asphalt.
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