RailPAC on Gas Taxes

I couldn’t agree more with Noel on this one … This is what California should have done late last year, instead of issuing these bonds - we should just raise the gax tax and there’d be plenty of money to pay for all those projects, even high speed rail possibly. I did some calculations a while ago and the numbers aren’t actually that bad. Since the current gax tax is so low, it could easily be doubled or more and people might not even notice … they’d still pay a lot less for gas than people in Europe and other places.

The increases in gasoline taxes should be used for infrastructure and not just for road construction. Higher gasoline taxes will slow down gasoline consumption and be an incentive to conserve gasoline. As a tax on consumption it gives the taxpayer a choice of how much tax they want to pay. Don’t want to pay more gas taxes, use less gas! Expanding rail passenger service and public transportation will give people more economical choices besides driving and will conserve fuel. In the long run by raising gas taxes we will stabilize gas prices and consumption which will slow down rising gas prices in the future.

[Rail Passenger Association of California & Nevada :: Editorial: Now would be a good time to raise Gas Taxes]

Posted in: Uncategorized | September 4, 2007 11:39 am