Re: Gas Prices?

From: Joe Foley (redmenaced@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Apr 25 2006 - 18:00:03 PDT

Yes, but if you ask a person in Wyoming if they
appreciate the money us Easterners spend on THEIR
highways they WILL say YES!!

The population of Wyoming is only a little over
400,000 and they know they couldn't afford their few
highways by themselves.

Joe

--- Marty Galyean <marty@heavyreckoning.com> wrote:

> Glenn Shaw wrote:
>
> >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.
> >
> >
> >
> Actually, I'd prefer to dump the taxes and make
> every major highway a
> toll road. User fees directly tied to upkeep of
> what is used beat vague
> taxes on everyone. My commute to work is completely
> over surface
> streets in a town of about 10,000. I use the
> federal highways about
> once every two months. Many people use them a
> couple of times a day.
>
> Marty
>
>
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