Will an Iowa gas tax increase be approved this year?
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Road builders, contractors and their allies will gather in the Statehouse Rotunda under the banner “It’s Time for a Dime” on Wednesday in what will be the most public push for a gas tax increase to date.
For months, some of Iowa’s most moneyed and influential lobbies have pushed lawmakers to raise Iowa’s gasoline tax by 10 cents, or absent that, find another way to pay for an estimated $215 million annual backlog of “critical” infrastructure repairs identified by the Iowa Department of Transportation.
They include the Farm Bureau, the General Contractors Association, the Soybean Association, the Association of County Supervisors and the Chamber Alliance.
But the kickback has been strong, too.
Iowans for Tax Relief, the Iowa branch of Americans for Prosperity and the Republican Party of Iowa have come out against a fuel tax increase, with the last one being particularly irksome for the Legislature’s Republican members.
Do you think a gas tax increase will be approved by the Iowa Legislature this year?
I hope not. They always go after the people it would hurt the most, the working class. Take away the subsidies and tax loopholes we give now and there would be plenty of money for roads & infastructure. It’s not just the oil companies either. When we can spend over 2 million to study the habits of goldfish I’d say it’s time they go after the big fish.
“Take away the subsidies and tax loopholes . . . and there would be plenty of money for roads and infrastructure.” Perhaps — where did you get you/r numbers ? What study of the habits of goldfish are you referring to ?
” What study of the habits of goldfish are you referring to ?”
http://tinyurl.com/aufgew6
Your link isn’t to research study, or report of a study, it’s to a political site.
John…try to keep up…the dept of defense spent 5.2 million on a study of gold fish to see if they could learn about democracy….
Because if Rand Paul says it, it must be….yet more TeaDerp. Paul the Lesser got so many things worng in his assertions. Hard to tell whether it was deliberate or mere sloppy (what passes for) “research”, or stupidity or what. Seems Poe’s Law just may be at work here.
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/scientist-guts-rand-paul-on-fish-study-87964.html
Sue, when are you going to figure out that folks won’t just take your word for it – not when you so often get it wrong – and will indeed fact-check and call you on your hooey.
This is what’s wrong with this country Joe…where is the out rage that our government would spend money…OUR TAX DOLLARS….so foolishly…WHAT DIFFRENCE does it make who said it or who exposed it…instead on making crap out of someone that brought it to your attention you and othesr ought to be focusing your out rage at the government…it’s not about party lines anymore…THATS the distraction the government wants as they screw us over…look at all the pre election hype about NOT raising taxes on the middle class…look at all the tax breaks the big corps still get to keep….it’s not about party lines anymore…they’re all in it together…and we…WE the people need to quit focusing our out rage on one another and start focusing it were its needed…in DC…the state capital….right down to city hall…
You ought to like this one Joe. Did Jesus Die for Klingons, Too? It is so ridiculous even you libs think I make this stuff up.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/49844670/Did_Jesus_Die_for_Klingons_Too_The_Pentagon_Wants_to_Know
Joe, I prove you wrong time & again but do you ever appologize?
DARPA is involved with long-term research that may have an impact on our national defense. Perhaps in 100 years we’ll be traveling “out there”. Part of that travel is the possibility of running into other folks that aren’t from Earth. So, one workshop/discussion on potential issues that may arise when we show up uninvited and bring our religion(s) with us. Makes sense. How much cost this one workshop/session added to the overall cost of the conference is not readily known, but I’m guessing not much. Imagine if such a discussion had taken place before European nations set out for the Far East via a western route. Imagine that indigenous peoples here had already invented (discovered, been given) more advanced technology.
Someone was trying to make political hay out of this one sound bite. You bought into it, not thinking beyond the neocon headline.
You’ve proven me wrong time and again, or you occasionally make a point that I agree with or concede to? I think the latter. I do apologize if there has been a time you’ve proven me wrong. So, your turn. “Goldfish” and Klingon kruft just from your posts here would be a good starting point.
Educate yourself!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffHS6sthF7M
A .10 tax hike is a massive increase if we continue to BUY our gas instead of supplying our own.
I can’t make any sense out of your sentence.
An incremental increase in the gas tax was easier to swallow before gas went up 70 cents in 6 to 8 weeks due to a bunch of odd excuses. I think at this point the state needs to be very careful as to what it does to consumers in this economy. They must have not got the memo, we’re tapped out.
Its called price gouging John! Ive read that the USA is producing more domestic oil now then ever and gas still keeps going up and up! What are they gonna do when people flat out quit buying gas other then for neccesity?
Well… I don’t know of anybody that buys gas that’s not necessary…we need to look at the speculators…every time Obama shuts more land off to drilling the price goes up because of the speculators…sure it’s a world market…a world on the boarder of economic collapse…the demand is down all over the world…it’s not supply and demand today…it’s the speculators…
I would rather they raise the fuel tax than raise the registration fees or property tax…sure it will increase the cost of gas 10 cents…and next week gas might go down twenty cents…where’s the out rage when gas went up 70-80 cents…another thing people forget is the traffic on our interstates…these are people crossing our state that help pay for our roads…lets have them help pay too another put the burden on state residents…
Regardless of where the money comes from it is essential for the country to maintain its current infrastructure as well as build for the future (and money spent on infrastructure unquestionably creates jobs). Good infrastructure makes the country more efficient and thereby better able to compete in the World economy. ( I’ve visited a number of foreign countries and many have very good infrastructure ! ) If infrastructure is allowed to deteriorate and lag (along with continued increase in income disparity) the US is likely to eventually become sort of a large banana republic.
I don’t want to pay even more for gasoline than I already do. But I certainly don’t want to be driving on the bridge when it collapses, on the highway when it buckles, etc.
(this bridge was part of my daily commute when I lived in the Cities: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge#Collapse )
You have to ask how many on here protested and helped file suit over the hi way 100 project….again …and again…that road could of been built years ago at a much lower cost…thanks greenies…that cost to the city and state came out of the road fund too…this fuel/ gas tax pays for more than just roads and bridges…we need to start getting caught up on repairs and maintenance…not to mention new roads and straightening others…
Supposedly they have this huge surplus….why can’t they use money from that?