Gas Tax
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KY diverts about $100 million to projects that are not for roads and bridges. Links to two articles below. Hope it helps.
About 5% of it goes towards roads, 5% towards the production of King Andy’s 5 o’clock Happy Hour Cartoon Show, 20% goes towards “Education” (in the form of 10% for education department administrators salaries & 10% for gender studies in the Appalachia region) and the remaining 70% goes into the “general fund” which is legislative code for “pissing it away”.
Thanks for the replies.... i have a conservative reps that have been preaching the need for raising the tax for infrastructure needs..... You would like to believe people act in your best interest but it is hard anymore to come to that conclusion. Gimme gimme gimme.
Don’t call them conservative. They are republicans.
If they want more, just hang on to the 20+ billion we're subsidizing fossil fuels with. I think that's a perfect setup for a free market to work properly.
One big problem with the gas tax paying for roads is families like mine, who drive two hybrids, plus thinking of getting an electric vehicle next time I buy. There has to be some more equitable way for us to pay our share of the infrastructure charge.
Task.... you know it’s coming for EV/Hybrid owners.... But government don’t wanna scare owners and potential owners off the technology.... Yet
That's already being studied over the last 2-3 years in KY ... whenever the legislature eventually/ultimately passes a bill to address the Road Fund shortfall. Call it what you want, mileage based user fee (MBUF), vehicle miles traveled (VMT), or fee road usage charges (RUC) ... lot of states have addressed this already.