Gas tax seems to have nowhere to go but up

SATIRE kewanee wrote:

<quoted text> WHAT KIND OF STUPIDITY IS THIS ?

above average.

In a way I hope the conservatives win in the next election. They lower taxes, make all the whiny kids happy, and then see what they have to say when the federal budget deficit doubles again, we need a new name for the pot hole because the average size is more that of a bathtub, and the government is only open 2 days a week because they have been forced to cut costs so much they keep the building shut and powered down. Oh wait, im sure liberals will be to blame for the lack of services that came about because of a lack of money.

At any rate the real issue shouldnt even be taxes or not, we as Americans created this problem with the advent of suburbia, and now we are paying for it. We've become a society that is dependent on driving to get ANYWHERE! If we even all lived in dense suburbs or cities we wouldn't be in this mess, but for some reason it became cool to live 50 miles from where you work, 20 miles from where you shop and 10 miles from where the kids go to school. If people would live closer to where they worked/shopped there would be less need for road improvements/construction, and guess what, you would spend a lot less on gas too!

HFox wrote:

The charge or tax should be mileage based (per mile tax) not on the gallon of fuel.

Agreed, but other than making every road a toll road, how would you enforce it?

bumpy roads ahead wrote:

In a way I hope the conservatives win in the next election. They lower taxes, make all the whiny kids happy, and then see what they have to say when the federal budget deficit doubles again, we need a new name for the pot hole because the average size is more that of a bathtub, and the government is only open 2 days a week because they have been forced to cut costs so much they keep the building shut and powered down. Oh wait, im sure liberals will be to blame for the lack of services that came about because of a lack of money.
At any rate the real issue shouldnt even be taxes or not, we as Americans created this problem with the advent of suburbia, and now we are paying for it. We've become a society that is dependent on driving to get ANYWHERE! If we even all lived in dense suburbs or cities we wouldn't be in this mess, but for some reason it became cool to live 50 miles from where you work, 20 miles from where you shop and 10 miles from where the kids go to school. If people would live closer to where they worked/shopped there would be less need for road improvements/construction, and guess what, you would spend a lot less on gas too!

People moved to the suburbs partly because the cities became unsafe. Remember the riots in the cities?

Now they move there because the suburbs are still safer and the services are cheaper and better.

bumpy roads ahead wrote:

In a way I hope the conservatives win in the next election. They lower taxes, make all the whiny kids happy, and then see what they have to say when the federal budget deficit doubles again, we need a new name for the pot hole because the average size is more that of a bathtub, and the government is only open 2 days a week because they have been forced to cut costs so much they keep the building shut and powered down. Oh wait, im sure liberals will be to blame for the lack of services that came about because of a lack of money.
At any rate the real issue shouldnt even be taxes or not, we as Americans created this problem with the advent of suburbia, and now we are paying for it. We've become a society that is dependent on driving to get ANYWHERE! If we even all lived in dense suburbs or cities we wouldn't be in this mess, but for some reason it became cool to live 50 miles from where you work, 20 miles from where you shop and 10 miles from where the kids go to school. If people would live closer to where they worked/shopped there would be less need for road improvements/construction, and guess what, you would spend a lot less on gas too!

I guess the next step you would recommend is that silly thing in the constitution about freedom of choice and association. It doesn't jibe with your social engineering experiment.