Tag: gas tax

Long time readers know that I have been a proponent of raising the gasoline tax in Wisconsin for a few years now. And really, there is no time like the present to pursue it again. The new governor, Tony Evers, is willing to consider it while being firmly against additional…

Well, apparently bowing to pressure from Governor Walker, the latest budget proposal coming out of the state legislature proposes raising the gas tax but lowering income taxes. So essentially funding infrastructure while stealing from education, safety and public welfare programs that the state runs. I have written about this at…

But no, it wasn’t Wisconsin’s Governor Scott Walker. He wants to borrow us into penury or steal funds from schools to build highways…it was: Gov. Jerry Brown (D – CA) today signed a bill that will increase gas taxes and vehicle fees to raise $5.2 billion annually for road and…

Wisconsin continues to debate how to increase funds for transportation (in Wisconsin that translates to build more freeways) as gas tax revenues continue to fall as cars get more fuel efficient or don’t use gasoline at all. Instead the governor continues to put highway construction on the credit card or…

Today the Wisconsin Department of Transportation said they were rejecting their totally unpopular proposal to expand I-94 from 16th Street to 70th Street by creating a double decker freeway: The proposed expansion of the I-94 east-west freeway between 16th and 70th streets in Milwaukee will be accomplished in the traditional…

The party who keeps saying that we need to think of our children’s future while cutting education, cutting safety net programs, cutting funds to the UW system, etc…it once again considering our children’s future by borrowing to fund the transportation fund: Gov. Scott Walker plans to rely on borrowing rather…