So, no more state income tax
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That’s exactly the case.
A lot of the old US highways were built thanks to FDR’s New Deal-era WPA.
The Interstate highways were Eisenhower’s variation of the German autobahns.
i agree, was just making sure I understood. I thought maybe they were saying that if we only rely on the gas tax (both state and federal), we’d be that way. Most all transportation infrastructure is funded by a gas tax.
Of course nowadays there are definitely other general funds pumped into it.
Federal state & local. If we funded all road construction & maintenance and airport construction, operations & maintenance through user fees, no one would pay it.
the bigger deal for counties in this tax bill is the increase in state aid funding. Currently, $90 MM per year is put into that fund, and we receive it once per election term. That number is increasing by $40 MM per year. So, now, $520 MM will be distributed to counties once every 4 years for state aid road and bridge maintenance. it's distributed based on a formula that takes miles of rural roads into account. not all roads in a county are state aid roads. most of your major roads are, though. don't confuse a state aid road with a state highway, though. a state aid road is a county road. state aid roads are roads and bridges that the state assisted the county in building. counties are bound to maintain that road or bridge to state aid standards, or risk losing their state aid funding. all state aid roads and bridges get inspected each year by the engineer for OSARC (office of state aid road construction). hinds county lost their state aid funding last year due to not repairing or replacing a bridge that OSARC told them had to be replaced or repaired. not sure if they did what was needed to regain it. Harry Lee James does a good job with state aid. He was appointed by Tate Reeves to serve as state aid director.
Make no mistake…..the Republicans want a user fee structure. It’d be disastrous, especially for small communities and small states. They simply do not get transportation and never have. They don’t like transit, they don’t like EVs (except for cowering to Elon) and they don’t like green options.
They do like gas guzzling, though.
That is good but…
Do you think that formula will stay the same or will it substantially change with the increased funding?
they tell us that the formula won't change. should have a net increase for all counties. Here is the formula
MS State Aid funding
That’s much better than I expected.
I thought there’d be different standards to go with the extra funding.
I don't disagree. EVs should have an annual tax equivalent to what an average ice driver would pay in gasoline tax.
You are going to pay taxes. I would much rather pay my taxes gradually instead of the lump sums we have to do in MS. I know when it was mostly agriculture, that was how those people got paid in lump sums and that is why MS is that way.
I hope we adjust the car tag tax also. My car buying over all these years I factored in what my car tag was going to cost that one month during a year. Also had to be sure that I didn't buy my wife's car and my car in the same calendar month. I would have much rather payed 50 a month than pay 600 in June. Yes I know I could have saved 50 a month in some fashion so I could then pay the 600 when due. I am not good at that.
I hope we adjust the car tag tax also. My car buying over all these years I factored in what my car tag was going to cost that one month during a year. Also had to be sure that I didn't buy my wife's car and my car in the same calendar month. I would have much rather payed 50 a month than pay 600 in June. Yes I know I could have saved 50 a month in some fashion so I could then pay the 600 when due. I am not good at that.