Experts say officials’ are pressuring lawmakers to increase state fuel tax to cover cost for road projects and public transportation. When turning on eight cents per gallon, as indicated by law state Rep. John Bradly, the state could generate an extra five hundred million annually. Lawmakers could turn around and authorized bond worth ten time the original amount of income. An average motorist would pay eighty cents more for ten gallon fill and RTA’s. Eventually they would take home over $ 2.7 billion in funding for capital project for over five years, that would be half of what the officials say they would need to cover the cost. In my opinion increasing state fuel tax is a bad idea!
One major reason why I think that increasing fuel tax is bad idea is because that means more money out of our pockets. Although the fuel tax in Illinois has not been raised in 18 years, we as drivers are still paying well above U.S. average for a gallon of gasoline. As the tribute points out, adding 50.8 cents a gallon if the state and local taxes are added to the federal tax rate of 18.4 cents per gallon. That’s the highest average of nine (PDF) in the nation. Doesn’t that says a lot we are already the highest average in the nation but that’s not enough our government wants go even higher.
That takes me to my second point. We as American people like driving to work and not have to worry bout if our bus or a train will be late. A new analysis of data collected from 2005, found that driving a car to work was the foremost means of commuting for 9 out of 10 workers. 87.7 percent of American workers use an automobile to get to work. Personally I love my peace and as the statistics’ show most Americans love that few minutes or an hour of time to themselves.
The Essay on To Tax or Not to Tax
It had the potential to raise taxes to outrageous rates, and despite the dismissal of the Cliff, the issue had just been pushed onto the back burner of the economy and will be readdressed later this year. On one hand, by keeping low taxes the state is unable to create a sufficient amount of money to pay off its debt. Instead, many people argue that by raising taxes the increased prices of items ...
The last reason and maybe the most important one is why give money for public transportation when most of the time there is conflicting schedules, unpredictable overtime, long hours, sudden demands and unexpected deadlines. Public transportation doesn’t always goes as far as you would like. If you live in suburbs and work in down town Chicago the best solution is to own your own car. Pace bus or a train just goes as far. And there is the time frame, having to worry if you’ll make it to work on time or if the train will be on time because of the weather problems. But if you drive to work or school there is smaller percentage of all these conflicts happening. You wont have to worry about the schedule or the distance of how far your transportation goes, and unexpected deadlines.
Being an American day to day worker and having to drive to work every day and go to school makes it much more easier driving and not having to worry about the bus schedule and my schedule. We are already dealing with very high taxes as it is and high gas prices we don’t need them any higher then they already are. I have read a lot of these taxes in the proposed mileage. As reading thru them I have nowhere seen anything about states trying to save some of our money it is all about spending more and raising more taxes for different things. If the government has tried to save some money rather than trying to spend more and then having to raise more, no would be in the position we are in today.
