One of my Readers is displeased with me.

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 It is good to see Jeremy participating again, But unlike the Past this time we differ a tad.

I am not one of those Libertarians who feel Govenment can or should be abolished and Taxation eliminated.

I feel there are some things Government needs to do.

That has to be paid for some way.

One of the ways in the Past we have, as a State chosen to fund road repair and upkeep, has been through a Fuel Tax.

Now I realize everyone seems to want what they want and also wants someone else to pay for it,

But when the Musical Chairs get down to a single one,.

Someone gets to set down, the rest are left standing,

Fuel Tax seems an almost Libertarian type of tax anyway.

Users pay nonusers don't.

Yes I know that non drivers will pay some higher for goods and services due to increased fuel costs but again that is their portion of the Road Usage.

Another thing to take into consideration is how inflation eats away at buying power.

That effects the State's ability to fund what it needs to fund as well as it does our abilites to pay our bills.

In this case we are not talking about an abuse of this principle.

We are not talking about  Built In Annual Funding Inceases that are several multiples of the inflation rate such as  the Democrats like,'

No we are talking about an increase that raises the buying power of the Fuel Tax Levy to about

75% of what it was 27 years ago,

That does not seem excessive to me.

Should anyone disagree, Feel free to use my comments section to respond with YOUR ideas on how Road Repair and Upkeep should be funded and how to maintain the needed level of funding.

Of course if they spend this money for something else besides roads and bridge repair all bets are off,.

Lest anyone misunderstand. A Raise in Taxes does not make me jump up and cheer,

I participlated in Three Campaigns to Oppose Raising the Local Option Sales Tax,

We won Two we had a combined War Chest for those two of less than 8K we faced City Hall, The Chamber of Commerce most of the large Corporations and Old Money in the County who for those two Referendums spent a combined total of about One Million dollars.

Like I said we won twice and the third time they buried us,

All three campaigsn were run out of the Star Lite btw the Way. It has turned into a Conservative Hub over the years.

So I think my Anti-Tax credentials are overall pretty good, much better than those of anyone who did not show up at the Star Lite back then to oppose LOST

THAT Tax cut all of us a lot deeper than this one will,.

This one IMO is Much Ado About Nothing 

Posted by ky/kentuckydan at 4:22 PM CST
Updated: Saturday, 28 February 2015 5:28 PM CST
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