DC must be heavily vested in plastics either directly or on the sly because that to me is the number one item poisoning the earth today that could be reduced or recycled better in the time ahead. Back when I was growing up DC pushed plastic over paper had we gone with paper things would be better today. We still need plastics but we need to be more responsible using and disposing of plastics.

Exactly!

Favor less spending,less taxing,more/better oversight and a better informed citizenry!

Ya can't fix stupid.

Excellent point, Mike.

Here in France, there is no such tax for average folks, and I think not for trucks either. So many trucks from all over Europe pass through here every day, and the European leaders are so inept, I doubt they could keep track of it. They do keep track of their hours and rest breaks.

I think our infrastructure is another thing in our lives that worked fine for so long, but isn't working so great anymore. When it comes to spending the infrastructure money, there are too many hands in the bucket for it to be spent wisely. Trucks need to roll, trains need to run, and everybody needs to get to work.

Pete

Hilton Head SC just made a toll road free. The bond sold to build it is fully paid off. A tax that went away.

I am certainly not about more taxes, but if more are coming, those who benefit should be the ones who pay. That is what a user tax is all about.

We pay over 2400$ a year apiece yearly to register our tucks, add that to the tax on a gallon of diesel and you'll find trucks more than pay their way.

Thought the govt built your railroads?

Not even close.
1 overloaded/fully loaded mine oretruck or log truck during spring half load restrictions can destroy a whole secondary highway or municipal roadway.

Ya outta pave yer roads up there.

If the government didn't waste so much money, taxes wouldn't need to be raised or new taxes wouldn't have to be created all the time.

We pay properly taxes on all our vehicles here. It’s crazy a new pickup might be $1000 or more a year. Then add all the property taxes paid on land. Some ground we have is $30/ac

Tax the company that drills a oil well plus permits, tax the oil that is pumped and the trucks and drivers hauling it. Tax the heck out of the oil refinery. Tax the trucks and drivers hauling the refined fuel. Then tax 10 different ways from Sunday the quick shop selling the fuel and then add another tax to the fuel. Mind blowing when you think about the whole process

Secondary hiways and municipal roads are normally prime.

We homeschool and get no incentive or tax break. So I cover the cost 100% for my kids and pay for the brain washing/socialist indoctrination the public school kids are getting. That's almost as bad as paying for abortions through taxes to me.

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The government has a monopoly on bad education and vouchers always get shut down by teachers unions and pols. The state is spending $22,000/student in Albany and the kids are dumb as a box of rocks. They can send kids to private schools for less but that won't happen.

Imagine our military with uneducated solders who can’t read a manual. Education is in vital public defense. Read today in a book by a Georgia author, that 3rd grade reading test indicate how many prisons the state will need in ten years.

So your a criminal if you can’t read? I don’t buy that I have seen more then once a farmer pass his checkbook to the counter person to fill it out. Maybe criminals are to lazy to learn that skill.

Nothing about a criminal. Soldiers need to be able to read.

Children that do miserably in school do frequently falter as adults. Not all, as you pointed out, but it is an indicator, as GA has noted. Under and unemployed youth are disproportionately populating our courts. Drug use and crime are probably higher among uneducated young adults. Not all, of course.

Is $30 an AC a lot for farmland?

In the people republic of MN that would be a good deal in many areas.

Maybe there should be a Stupid Tax on these folks.

Like I always say, as soon as the government sees you make a dollar, eleven different agencies each want a dime.