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Originally Posted by Daox
FYI, the transportation fund reform did pass.
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Ah, another layer to the onion.
I have yet to find the full text but the snippets I can find of the "reform" is that it is very specific and only applicable to tax on fuel. "Other" funding sources appear to still be disgressionary so it may still be meaningless at the end of the day. Given the length of the document it may take some time to figure out what kind of crap... erm I mean loopholes are in it and who is benefitting.
I am strongly hoping they just add a few pennies onto the gas tax and don't go the typical republican way of adding fees on top of other fees.
The idea of a special tax against people who save money using alternative fuels to me is very sad and a good commentary on the state of affairs here in wisconsin. Although I secretly had a bit of vindictive happyness when I found that people with greenwashed vehicles like hybrid suburban/tahoe/durangos/ and start stop cars were apparently included in the $50 fee but it still to me is a boneheaded move.
We still have the farm loophole that causes 25% of our rural road repairs, too bad we don't have the will to address the real causes of road damage and instead just spread out the cost on everyone because a handfull of individuals cause extreme damage in of themselves.
Ah well.