Gas Tax

As you may have heard HB 1515, the gas tax bill has been passed by the House Ways & Means Committee. After all of the pressure for a Constitutional Amendment to protect the fund from future raids, the bill includes a meaningless requirement for a 3/5th vote of the budget committees to allow allow future raids on the fund. This is an insulting joke! Over a billion has been taken from the fund to grow the rest of the budget The dirty secret is that a gas tax is easier to pass because people want their roads and bridges maintained. But most of the money goes to mass transit and other purposes, not roads. The sales tax added to the price of gasoline would be tied to the CPI and increase automatically without the legislature having to vote. This has been a long held dream for liberals in the General Assembly, who like more revenue and no accountability.

From Americans for Prosperity – Take action

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