gixxerfool
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A few years back the state funded pension account was broke. So in order for the governor to pay it they stole money from the transportation trust fund. Now, they had done this I believe three time prior. They promised not to do it again. So they put a vote to have a new gas tax fund the TTF and promised not to use it for anything else. It got voted down.Why would the government be laughing all the way to the bank?
So they re-introduced it for a vote with a
Promise of a decrease in sales tax to offset it. Wait until you see this math.
gas tax increase of $.23/gallon. A decrease in sales tax of .375%. Not 3.75%, .375%. So basically nothing. They knew it wouldn’t be enough to pass the vote, so they coupled it with a ton of senior exclusive tax breaks, the people that don’t really drive all that much, and pushed it through.
to add to this, they wrote the tax in such a way that in times of low demand the tax can multiply.