Oregon gas tax and minimum wage going up?
My neighbor saw an article about Oregon raising their gas tax by $1.00 per gallon AND raising the state minimum wage to $15.00 per hour! If so, this will really cost RVrs and others big time, no...
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westernrvparkowner wrote:wildtoad wrote:If it happens like the OP said, that extra dollar per gallon of gas would go to the highway department and they would use that money to pay the 5 guys leaning on their shovels twice what they are making now. And don't forget the 50 layers of bureaucrats that oversee those workers will need raises too. After all, they are now supervising $15.00 an hour workers, not $7.50 workers. More responsibility, more pay, the American Way.
I would vote for an increase in the gas tax IF I thought it would actually go to fix the roads here in SC. However, the DOT as such a bad reputation for mismanagement of the funds they already get no one believes it will be monies well spent.
I tend to agree with westernrvparkowner. Two other downstream impacts will be less entry level jobs as more of them are automated or simply eliminated, and continue the US direction of being the high cost producer of goods and services which has it's own repercussions.
....REALLY.... as a retired road worker I don't think you really know much about road maintenance wages or the material costs involved. In the 90's hot mix was $16.00 a ton, same supplier now charges $60.00 a ton. Equipment costs, fuel costs both up and labor costs are a union and management negotiated item in most government operations, not minimum wage jobs for sure.
