From: Royce C Hayes (rc_hayes1@juno.com)
Date: Tue Apr 25 2006 - 16:20:10 PDT
A lot of road and bridge taxes are going to the new bridge in Alaska
where no one lives. May as well eliminate it, they are running out of
places to put new highways.
Royce
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:08:37 -0400 "Glenn Shaw"
<milspectruck@verizon.net> writes:
> That is a misleading argument as the State and Federal Fuel Tax is a
> specific use tax earmarked for the Highway Funds.
>
> As it presently stands the Highway funds do NOT fully cover the
> expenses of
> the State and Federal highway systems. These taxes were conceived
> as the
> fairest way to tax citizens for the highways they use. I doubt that
> the EU
> system of fuel taxes is earmarked only for highway uses.
>
> If we do not want any more public money spent on the roads then we
> can
> eliminate the tax, but I don't think anyone seriously wants to
> eliminate
> funding for the construction and maintenance of the roadways.
>
> Glenn
>
> snip
> When the Government makes far more money on the sale of a unit of
> petrol
> than the refinery companies do, why would they do ANYTHING to change
> that?
> There's no incentive to other than re-election. Other countries,
> particularly European ones are getting reamed on taxes. Fuel is up
> to $6.50,
> even $8.00 or more per gallon.
>
>
> Aaron Horrocks
>
>
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