The end to gasoline tax indexing is at hand. Legislators will have to vote each year to increase the tax as they choose. Consumers have been frustrated that the gasoline tax in Wisconsin has risen higher than neighboring states. However, the question is raised in the article whether ending the indexing is just a scapegoat thing. The gasoline tax fund was the source of the rescue of the school funding in the last budget period. The result of all this may be increases in vehicle registration or even toll roads. In short, the bills for the building of roads will be paid. The question is where from.
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The road lobby/road building contractors probably aren't very happy and road building isn't the best use of tax dollars. If legislators feel it is, they are welcome to raise the tax yearly with the risk of behing held accountable for their votes.
ReplyDeleteAs far as unnecessary roads, I hear that they are widing HWY 14 to 4 lanes between HWY 138 and Rome corners towards Brooklyn. If that is true, there will still be bottle necks during high traffic where 138 enters a two lane road and where HWY 14 becomes a two lane road around Oregon High school. If this is true, it will not make traffic flow any better and will be a complete waste of tax dollars on unnecessary roadwork. If they are going to widen it, it would make more sense to widen so it would be four lanes all the way from Madison to HWY 138 and not widen it any further past 138.