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Steve G posted on 2/6/2010 6:32:00 PM
Other options:
1.)Increase license renewal fees on aggressive drivers, drivers with criminal records, drivers who have accumulated 6 points or more and repeat offenders of the point system. Also, consider motor vehicle increase in all levels of license renewals fees are below national average.
2.) Remove State Police funding from the transportation budget.
3.)Consider pilot progrmas in VMT technology to transfer from a state gas tax to a better revenue source for transporation funding.
Jonathon Butler posted on 1/31/2010 7:51:00 PM
As a truck driver I applaud your efforts to keep this travesty from happening. All highway trust fund money and fuel tax money should be going to roads and bridges. Not to other things. A few states have changed the laws so that this money could not be used for anything else, and the roads started getting better quickly.
If they feel they must tax the use of a road by tolling it, there are much better choices in the state. Such as I-95. If they tolled 95 at 1.00 a car and 5.00 per truck, every time they entered the road it would raise just as much money.
And it would not substantially raise the cost of goods in the state.
As it is most company's will charge the shippers for the full toll amount, then run the trucks on a north or south route around Western PA.
This would be hard on business in the area and on the drivers trying to deliver everything you own on time.
Tolls are always passed on 100%. It is just a hidden tax on the consumers in the state. They will pay it on anything they buy. Nothing gets to any store in this nation without a truck.
Thank you for your time. Again, thank you for fighting and offering really good common sense alternatives.
Paladin kcs posted on 1/26/2010 6:53:00 PM
The elitist defeatist Party of Fast Eddie like hidden taxes that way they can keep the mask for idiots that say they are the party of the People or dopes on a rope hidden taxes such as I-80 costing each consumer more and more to make up the cost of the tax on business in this case truck in items costing 300.00 dollars per truck load. If I were a trucking company I would raise the cost of any item coming into Pa to cover the shipments going further north as well but that just me, Pa government has all vices covered except street walker and drug pushers will not be long I'll bet till Fast Eddie or his predecessor gets around to those then the welfare money will all come back in state liquor or gambling lottery who know how can the mafia compete with the elitist defeatist party they can not Paladin kcs
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