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- From: stead@skadi.CSS.GOV (Richard Stead)
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- Subject: Re: Roads and Taxes (was Re: NEWS: True Costs of )
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- Date: 21 Jan 93 20:12:37 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.120241.7316@ke4zv.uucp>, gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman) writes:
- > Only in the liberal welfare state Northeast. Down here in Georgia
- > we have both the lowest taxes *and* the best roads. That's because
- > we don't let the Legislature get their sticky fingers on the gas
- > tax money. It's mandated by law to go *directly* to the State DOT
- > which in our state is essentially a totally autonomous body that
- > doesn't answer to the Legislature. They are a professional group
- > of highway engineers, not politicians.
-
- Well, I applaud the fact that you keep that tax money from the politicos,
- but that is only a small contribution to the condition of your roads.
- The main advantage you have over the NE is the lack of snow and ice.
- It is no small coincidence that the states with the worst road conditions
- are those along the freeze/thaw line - despite the fact that at least
- one (PA) is reliably conservative.
-
- BTW - you now have given me an example where directed taxes work to
- offer to all those who argue that my suggestion of a large, directed
- federal gas tax couldn't work. I'll just say "Why not ask Gary in Georgia?"
- Thanks.
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- Richard Stead
- Center for Seismic Studies
- Arlington, VA
- stead@seismo.css.gov
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