re: Would u pay 17 extra cents a gallon if you knew that 100% went to roads and bridges?

Hell no. TIME-D tax Roemer passed was pissed away on stupid crap including salaries for the DOTD shovel-leaners and not spent on roads. Same thing will happen with this retard in the mansion!

i saw this yesterday. If 17cents meant perfect roads....a new miss bridge....improved interstate system....and metropolitan type public transit then yes I would be for it.

Unfortunately all it will do is fix some potholes here and there and thats it. This money will mostly go towards balancing the budget. Not improvements to the road infrastructure. So no I will not be pleased if this gets passed.

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There is no amount of fat that can be trimmed to pay for the billions in backlogged transportation needs. Not in this life or the next.

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That is a democrat excuse. While what your saying may or may not be true, that still doesn't mean that they need to do it.

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if you knew that 100% went to roads and bridges?

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They already fooled us once with that promise.

Who knew that dedicated money going to the State Police retirement fund was going to "roads and bridges"??

It amazes me that people still fall for dedicated funds.

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This will never pass the public vote

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One of the bills being introduced does not require a statewide vote, only 2/3 of each house of the legislature to approve it.

The department of transportation is completely self funded by the existing gas tax. No money comes from the general fund. There is no way for the legislature to take away money they don't give.

No
I'd want the lions share of taxes we pay now to go to roads and bridges before we gave the same people more money to burn through.

Has this administration shown any fiscal discipline? Are we concentrating the revenues we currently have on basic services? Or are we still funding pork Barrell projects? Are they still sponsoring large corporate welfare programs with little oversight?

We just raised sales tax to record levels, and that wasn't enough. Don't give them more before they show some discipline.

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Something needs to be done. The gas tax has not been increased or adjusted for inflation since the 1980s. The cost just to maintain what we have has increased significantly since the 1980s, much less the cost to build anything new. If nothing is done, the traffic situation will get worse because the state won't be able to pay to maintain what's already in place.

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Let's see a clear and transparent plan laid out on what improvements will be made and how the money will be spent. Give us a 2-4-6yr plans. Then i'd consider a raise. Don't think I'd be on board for 17cents though. Maybe 10 if the right plan is in place.

Absolutely I would vote for the tax if I still lived in BR. However they have tried this before and it always gets voted down. Typical BR. Bitch about infrastructure, traffic, schools etc, but vote down a a tax to fix said problems every time. How do people there expect for the place to improve without the taxpayers paying for it?