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To put in numbers terms, if the hike is 20 cents/gal and the average driver in Louisiana buys 700 gallons (15,000 miles/year with a Ford F-150 getting 22 MPG average) of gasoline in a single year, that's $140 a year more in taxes for that person. Let's say that's a round $200/year, or $16.67/month.

I'm not a dumbass who spends money on Starbucks, and the government doesn't need 200 more dollars of my money, they don't know how to spend my money better than me

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Posted by The Sad Banana

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Posted on 12/30/16 at 11:01 am to makinskrilla

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I'm not a dumbass who spends money on Starbucks, and the government doesn't need 200 more dollars of my money, they don't know how to spend my money better than me

This is the kind of shortsighted and backwards thinking that has kept Louisiana in the traffic and transportation quagmire it's been in for so long.

If you want improvements that are going to be impactful and immediate, it's not free. And the proposed cost is pittance.

I'm mostly conservative and when it comes to government, I think it should be small. I believe it should provide infrastructure for the public good, it should protect and enforce the law and it should protect us with a well-funded military. And here is the state government laying out a plan for it to make these changes and the same stale argument is being made against it. We won't progress if you can't think a little broader than you are.

This post was edited on 12/30/16 at 11:02 am

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