Re: Talk radio demands gas tax cuts but demands more road services

On Nov 29, 4:18 pm, hanco...@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
A talk-radio station, WKXW-FM in NJ was complaining about high
gasoline and other taxes and that nothing is ever done to lower them,
only raise them. Irornically NJ has the lowest tax rate in the
state. Yet this same station is the first to demand more govt
services such as wider highways and faster snowplowing. Those things
cost money and the money must come from higher taxes.

Concrete doesn't hang from trees and pour itself. Most people don't
donate their homes to the state to use as a right-of-way. Snow and
ice doesn't magically melt away the instant the storm is over and it's
time to drive to work.

(The station also made a big stink about criminals and demanded longer
prison sentences. Well, that's been done, but it costs money to keep
offenders in prison. Indeed, the station also objected to data entry
work the state assigned the inmates to do which was a good way for the
inmates to earn their keep and stay out of trouble.)

I don't know if other talk radio stations elsewhere are this stupid
when it comes to highway work. If we want more or better public roads
we must raise taxes to pay for them, pure and simple.

Or toll them.

I can't find a single item that I agree on with this nutcase of a
broadbaster.
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