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re: Alabama votes to screw its residents at the gas pump.

Posted on 3/13/19 at 8:40 am to
Posted by keks tadpole
Yellow Leaf Creek
Member since Feb 2017
8688 posts
Posted on 3/13/19 at 8:40 am to
quote:

There is no reason to have new bridges to Selma


I figured I-85 would have already run from Montgomery to Jackson, MS by now.
Posted by jb4
Member since Apr 2013
13925 posts
Posted on 3/13/19 at 8:42 am to
Really bitching about 10 cents governor of Michigan just proposed 45 cents
Posted by Blizzard of Chizz
Member since Apr 2012
21451 posts
Posted on 3/13/19 at 8:43 am to
quote:

You could be like Georgia, voters voted against a gas tax, so the just took lanes off the interstate and created Peach Pass lane. Now if you want to get home quicker, you have to pay them


Every time I drive through Atlanta, those Peach Pass lanes are closed.
Posted by Wally Sparks
Atlanta
Member since Feb 2013
32722 posts
Posted on 3/13/19 at 8:47 am to
quote:

So where did they get the money to build the forking roads in the first place.


Gas tax?
Posted by MrLarson
Member since Oct 2014
34984 posts
Posted on 3/13/19 at 3:52 pm to
quote:

That low population areas needing new roads shouldn't be a critical path to the majority?


So other rural areas in Alabama that are in need should take a back seat to you're virtue signaling county?

Hey Chiz.

This is what I was talking about.
Posted by DyeHardDylan
Member since Nov 2011
9735 posts
Posted on 3/13/19 at 4:05 pm to
“We’ve run out of your money, so give us more in the form of not being able to afford filling up your gas tank”

And people in this state will continue to vote for these so called conservatives as long as they have an R next to their name.
Posted by SippyCup
Gulf Coast
Member since Sep 2008
7002 posts
Posted on 3/13/19 at 4:06 pm to
Definitely not stopping at Bucees again on my way to Florida. That place was chaos the last two times I stopped and now with an additional .10 I will just coats on through to Florida.
Posted by NC_Tigah
Make Orwell Fiction Again
Member since Sep 2003
138899 posts
Posted on 3/13/19 at 4:16 pm to
quote:

at the gas pump

Words can't describe how furious I am right now.
Interesting.

Would you prefer it was in income tax, property tax, etc?

Posted by cuyahoga tiger
NE Ohio via Tangipahoa
Member since Nov 2011
6162 posts
Posted on 3/13/19 at 4:16 pm to
quote:

And we already had a gas tax that paid for those needed repairs. However, the same legislature that decided we needed a higher gas tax also decided to rob the fund to repair the roads of $300 Million over the past several years.


Roads cost more to fix now than when tax was enacted as well as cars are more fuel efficient.
Posted by arcalades
USA
Member since Feb 2014
19276 posts
Posted on 3/13/19 at 4:30 pm to
quote:

If the roads truly need repairs, the fairest way to do that is through a gas tax. The more you use the road, the more you pay.

Stop your bitching.
You stop being stupid, moron. We have as corrupt a state govt as any in the country. The voted for the gas tax for the sole reason of robbing it to pay their buddies to pay them kickbacks.
Posted by highcotton2
Alabama
Member since Feb 2010
10523 posts
Posted on 3/13/19 at 4:37 pm to
I think there is a provision in that law that allows them to raise it inline with rising road construction costs without voting on it.
Posted by lsuoilengr
Member since Aug 2008
5436 posts
Posted on 3/13/19 at 4:41 pm to
Unbelievable. Time for a revolution
Posted by TGFN57
Telluride
Member since Jan 2010
6975 posts
Posted on 3/13/19 at 4:42 pm to
Everyone wants good roads and police and services but nobody wants to pay taxes for it all.
A great Republican once said that taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.
This post was edited on 3/13/19 at 4:45 pm
Posted by mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Member since Nov 2015
39418 posts
Posted on 3/13/19 at 4:44 pm to
People constantly bitch about pennies on the dollar for gas...but will spend $2 for a Coke.

A Coke can't get you to work.
Posted by 9th life
birmingham
Member since Sep 2009
7310 posts
Posted on 3/13/19 at 4:47 pm to
Support.
Our roads are crap.

We need some DOT scalehouses too.
Posted by Evolved Simian
Bushwood Country Club
Member since Sep 2010
23265 posts
Posted on 3/13/19 at 4:51 pm to
quote:

We found the one DOT contractor. There is no reason to have new bridges to Selma. Raise your own taxes.





No. You found the one person posting who actually understands what's happening here.

I am not now, nor have I ever been involved with road construction or any level of government. I'm just not an uninformed imbecile like the majority in this thread.
Posted by Diamondawg
Mississippi
Member since Oct 2006
38357 posts
Posted on 3/13/19 at 4:53 pm to
I would gladly pay a $.10/gal gas tax if every penny went to roads and bridges. We have thousands of bridges that have been condemned - if that's the right description.
Posted by The Tom Arnold
Tuscaloosa
Member since Dec 2015
1549 posts
Posted on 3/13/19 at 4:54 pm to
Alabama residents -

What do we want: The Lottery!
What do we get: ... gas tax


Glad I work from home and my wife is a stay an home mom. We may fill up 10 times per year combined.
Posted by Evolved Simian
Bushwood Country Club
Member since Sep 2010
23265 posts
Posted on 3/13/19 at 4:56 pm to
quote:

“We’ve run out of your money, so give us more in the form of not being able to afford filling up your gas tank”



I love the bitching from all the impoverished morons who are going to have to pay $1 per car per week to fix the roads and bridges that they've driven on every goddamned day for decades.
Posted by HempHead
Big Sky Country
Member since Mar 2011
56700 posts
Posted on 3/13/19 at 7:12 pm to
quote:

Everyone wants good roads and police and services but nobody wants to pay taxes for it all.



You're damn right I don't. I want to pay directly for the service or product.
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