Gas tax increase in some states July 1st

rk911 wrote:
illinois is also taxing EV owners $248 p/y per vehicle. at the new gas tax rate of $.38 p/g. that's the equivalent of ~652 gallons of gas per year.

When you account for the whole story - its only 263 gallons. You didn't allow for the $148 fee gas vehicles pay per year over and above the gas tax. You're still getting a bargain in my book. Your paying $248 in tax a year. The average motorist is probably paying about $400.

Airdaile wrote:

JRscooby wrote:
The last time the gas tax came up for a vote in my state was the first time in my life I have ever voted against one. .

Wait...wait... you get to VOTE for or against a tax??? I'm moving there. Where is it?

I'd gladly pay more gas tax if it was specifically earmarked for road repair, but in most states it goes to the general fund and can be used for anything (like trains to nowhere).

As of July 1st - CA now has the highest gas tax -and gas prices- in the USA...:(

And YES - not only did the residents get to VOTE on it once - there was a recall (for a SECOND Vote).

Gas tax won - both times.
IIRC first was a .19 cent increase, July 1 - another .06 cents.

They (not me) believed the smoke and mirrors about better roads, road improvements, etc., etc. (Nothing to do with electric vehicles)..:R

Get ready for "BOHICA" - as no doubt, other states will jump on the bandwagon!..

:(

Looks like we in PA will no longer enjoy the highest gasoline taxes in the nation. In my neighborhood seven roads remain closed from flooding LAST AUGUST! Absolutely NOTHING has been done to repair these roads, So much for gas taxes going to fix roads, the money goes where politics dictates. Road Closed

BillyBob Jim wrote:
Yet they keep getting re-elected everywhere...

That would make a cynical fella think that the System no longer works.
Or we are a nation of morons and crooks.
Or all of the above.

I remember when gas 19 cents a gallon. Now our fuel taxes are double that and some more.
Haslam's last year he cut deals for splitting the money with supporters in the Legislature, for pet projects for Developers, and a list of things, that would take a while. The Legislators were giddy after it passed. The 1 cent is just this year it goes up for several years until the gas and diesel taxes federal and state total the same.
None of this is kosher. Everyone knows some of the pieces of this heists not just here but across the Country and yes the President was talking of increasing the Federal Fuel taxes year before last and last year for infrastructure.
Damage to the road by semis is the big culprit in every sate.
Quite importing and starting producing in America and Locally. People are driving a hundred miles or more to work, and not just a few.
hundred thousand pound+ semis are crowding Tn Interstates so much that one evening, we noted in opposing lanes, bumper to bumper semis with marker lights glowing like a giant carnival with just a handful of cars mixed in for a distance of over 10 miles.
Americans are sick of what is going on but we are just supposed to be interested(and angry) spectators. Won't be a decade before our fuel prices, with taxes, equal Europe's and more if the Greenies get their way, and we now are the worlds leading producer of oil and should be energy independent but prices and axes are going up.

I wish the fuel tax would go to fix the roads and not the general fund. Several threads about damage occurring to our RV'S from poor roads. Perhaps if everyone called the people in charge the squeaky wheel would get the greese.

Counting down to delete time :B

As if this thread wasn't ripe to go political the moment it was opened...

JRscooby wrote:
The last time the gas tax came up for a vote in my state was the first time in my life I have ever voted against one. .

Wait...wait... you get to VOTE for or against a tax??? I'm moving there. Where is it?

I'd gladly pay more gas tax if it was specifically earmarked for road repair, but in most states it goes to the general fund and can be used for anything (like trains to nowhere).

The last time the gas tax came up for a vote in my state was the first time in my life I have ever voted against one. The ballot wording said the Highway Patrol was involved. Never saw somebody in bear hat holding a shovel.
Face facts; Both parties, no matter what their ads say, want to spend all the money they can. The only difference is one wants to tax everybody, the other only working people.