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This is desperately needed. Considering it took 20 years since the last one maybe they should index it to inflation while they're at it.
This is the height of hubris.
To ask for more tax money while wasting billions incentivises an uprising.
Who in their right mind would not tell both these senators to go find the money in their infinite flow of tax payer cash they light their cigars with and give to cronies.
Dump both these guys next election as they are throwbacks from the height of government corruption and cronyism.
No dedicated tax ever ends up where it was promised.
Only a fool would think raising the gas tax is a sound idea.
Sure,the stimulus provided all the cash that would ever be needed for infrastructure repair...where is that money?
You enjoyed seeing Obama half snicker when asked about his promise of shovel ready jobs?
At this point in time Ferd you have an Interstate system built in the 60's and 70's. The cost for the bridges alone that are past their lifetime is astronomical.
I would assume his intent was something along the lines of this: the federal government already sucks up VAST sums of money; why can't they use some of that for things that are actually important, like infrastructure.
Meanwhile the federal government is raising taxes everywhere else, and they still cannot get enough. Gasoline prices are set for new highs this summer, aside from whatever is going on in Iraq, and the out-of-touch government wants to raise taxes???
This 'all time high' is definitely NOT because our economy is booming at an all time high, it's because taxes are at an all time high and sucking the life blood out of our already stagnant economy
Really? gasoline prices are set for an all time high this summer?
uhmmm...aside from whatever is going on in Iraq, (as you indicate)....thats not true at all. Gas prices have gone down the last three years. Or do you mean not counting for inflation? I suppose we could do that, and then we could say:
"Almost every damn thing has gone up in the last few years"
This is desperately needed. Considering it took 20 years since the last one maybe they should index it to inflation while they're at it.
What are you, crazy? What they need to start doing again is posting the amount of taxes, city/county/state/federal on the gas pumps like they used to do not too long ago.
No, I'm not crazy. I would like to continue being able to use interstate highways in the future. You'll probably be dead so you don't care, but neither I nor my children will be.
I take it people who are so opposed to this are not familiar with the highway trust fund or what it's used for. Go check it out.
Your money went to “shovel ready” projects that were supposed to fix the roads. Now the government wants to tax you more for upgrading what should have already been fixed.
But the bottom line is there will never be enough money to satisfy Fedzilla. It always wants more.
This is desperately needed. Considering it took 20 years since the last one maybe they should index it to inflation while they're at it.
Do you not realize that Big Government is already confiscating a much greater percentage of everyones' income than they did 20 years ago--with NO improvement in anything? Do you not realize that on top of huge levels of tax confiscation, Washington has managed to rack up a debt of $17 trillion and counting, while NOT FIXING the infrastructure that was declining? Do you REALLY think that giving them another 12 cents per gallon is going to change anything, when we already pay 40-60 cents of taxes on every gallon to federal, state and local governments. National and State Gas Taxes (Fuel Taxes) in the United States - GasPriceWatch.com
Our idiot legislators in NH just raised the gas tax with just such ridiculous justification. With the most obscene property taxes in the nation, and virtually nothing provided in public services, I'm sure giving Concord MORE MONEY will solve all our problems.
And by the way, the newly-raised gas tax in NH ALSO APPLIES TO PROPANE (found hidden in the back of the newspaper) which unfortunately heats my home at a cost of several thousand dollars a month in the winter. Are politicians stupid beyond belief, or just evil incarnate?
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Proposed 12 cent increase in gas tax
