Re: State sounds alarm over road funding


It is not anything I have not heard before. It is not ignorant, it is
reality based, so what are you worried about?

But I do disagree. A flat tax is inherently reqressive, that is its
main problem. IOW the less you make, the higher percentage you pay.
That is what is so regressive about sales taxes. Poor people pay a
higher percentage.

No, a 10% tax is a 10% tax. Whether you're making $5K a year or $500K a
year. What could be fairer than that?



It is horribly unfair, and you know it. 10% of $5K is $500, that
hurts a lot more to some one making $5K then 10% of $500K which is
$50,000. And that sir is one of the reasons it will never happen.






Now if you're talking about making the wealthy pay a higher percentage
of their income because they can "afford" more then you're not talking
about a flat tax.



Now is it your feeling that transportation be funded out of general
revenues? If it is I will disagree with that also.

Transportation is NOT education. That is the reason the gas tax was
instituted initially, so that transportation was funded by the users.

Transportation is just as vital to the functioning of our society as
education is. You may disagree, but it is true. Remove the
transportation system and watch the country grind to a halt. Same
effect as having an uneducated society.


You miss the point. No one is talking about removing the
transportation system, just how to pay for it. If you fund it out of
general revenues it has to compete with things like education, law
enforcement, parks, welfare, etc, and it won't do as well as if it has
its own source of funding.

For many years NJ had that system of placing all revenues into the
general fund and funding everything out of that stream.
Believe me it was not good for transportation.



Randy


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