Here is a loaded question
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WE do.
Taxpayers last I checked. Unless it's a private road or a toll road, those are usually paid by the organization who runs it, usually...
Not sure where you are going with this, but wouldn't the answer be our taxes? One of my pet peeves was when I lived in NH and worked 2 miles over the border in MA, I had to pay MA taxes (NH has no state tax).
I had no say in where my tax dollars went since I didn't live and couldn't vote in MA, so essentially that would be taxation without representation.
Lots of technology companies have moved just north of the border into NH for this very reason. NH residents working there get a 5.3% raise (of course MA residents are still screwed).
I had no say in where my tax dollars went since I didn't live and couldn't vote in MA, so essentially that would be taxation without representation.
Lots of technology companies have moved just north of the border into NH for this very reason. NH residents working there get a 5.3% raise (of course MA residents are still screwed).
Gas, license plate and weight taxes, i.e. truck taxes.
This guy dtrigg, I love this guy. That was the exact answer I was looking for.
NOW...... To all the Amish people who don't buy gas, get the Phuck off the road you didn't pay for it, aren't paying for it, so you can't use it.
It is also to my understanding that {at least in Texas} when a State trooper writes a ticket, the fines go to the local County road and bridge Preciencts.
I think it varies from state to state, but the bottom line is probably whatever taxes they want to use. For state roads in MA I believe it's typically income tax, gas tax and the feds (I'm just speculating, I'm not really certain).
The Amish don't get tickets either. Once again..off the road, out of the way.
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I always thought it was the highway use tax paid when registering a vehicle.
So if those Amish buggies are sporting license plates, aren't they contributing?
So if those Amish buggies are sporting license plates, aren't they contributing?
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Lol
No plates on the buggies around here. Just piles of horse shit to splash all over the side of my cars.
If I let my dog crap and in the park and don't pick it up I get a ticket. Why can their horses crap all over the place and they don't have to pick it up?
Re: 99.99% of the public have "no idea"
Yep, it's a loaded question; very loaded. It would take hours to dissect and discuss all the sources and intricasies of funding roadway infrastructure because we'd have to address a particular state or county or city at a particular time in a particular set of criteria.
The obvious example is the all too common practice of siphoning gas taxes into the general fund. A less obvious example is some pork barrell funding. I've got some of that on a $77 M freeway interchange reconstruction I'm doing. I've got a junior engineer working 1/2 time on the invoicing and documentation for getting that money from at least 6 different state and federal pots. My eyes literally glaze over when he comes in for my signature on paper that is just accounting gibberish to me.
Yep, it's a loaded question; very loaded. It would take hours to dissect and discuss all the sources and intricasies of funding roadway infrastructure because we'd have to address a particular state or county or city at a particular time in a particular set of criteria.
The obvious example is the all too common practice of siphoning gas taxes into the general fund. A less obvious example is some pork barrell funding. I've got some of that on a $77 M freeway interchange reconstruction I'm doing. I've got a junior engineer working 1/2 time on the invoicing and documentation for getting that money from at least 6 different state and federal pots. My eyes literally glaze over when he comes in for my signature on paper that is just accounting gibberish to me.
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Plus isn't slick sh!t a road hazard? Can you imagine trying to explain sliding off road into a tree because of poo?
Yeah, I read an article just the other day claiming that money brought in from gas taxes is down because 1. People are driving less, 2. More hybrids out there now that use less gas, and 3. Electric cars are in almost the same boat as the Amish in that there aren’t any gas taxes associated with them.
Don’t worry, though. Your friendly local legislators will close that little loophole long before anyone here hits the road in an electric.:smile:
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Sounds like someone's Ferrari ran over some horse poop. :smile:
As for me, it's the Quakers on their bicycles that really piss me off...
As for me, it's the Quakers on their bicycles that really piss me off...
Not yet in the Ferrari but I popped up over a hill yesterday and there was the buggy right in the road. If I had hit that idiot I bet I would have been sued.
so what's the big shake - isn't ferrari the prancing horse?
Re: 99.99% of the public have "no idea"
any chance you're the guy holding up the re-paving of my local street? :wink:
(i know, i know: not unless my local street is US 80)
any chance you're the guy holding up the re-paving of my local street? :wink:
(i know, i know: not unless my local street is US 80)
What do I win?
the opportunity to come to my house and frolic with my bees :biggrin:
Amish sue?
Amish sue?
You'd be surprised....they have learned of our "evil ways" (non-Amish) or at least their attorney's have. :biggrin:
You were almost Munson'ed.
