Senate should fix the road fix
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There must be a transportation funding route that doesn’t run over schools.
Virginia needs billions of dollars, quickly, to maintain and improve its long-neglected transportation system. At last, the General Assembly has reached bipartisan agreement at least on that.
Yet Senate Democrats who are balking at proposed solutions are right to resist.
February 8, 2013 - 6:18 AM
From the BRC blog. This is the ONLY ting that makes any real sense.:
“As Virginia legislators struggle to agree on a fix for the state’s chronic transportation funding problems, a trade association for petroleum dealers is taking a stand in the debate.
It wants the General Assembly to raise the gasoline tax.
The Virginia Petroleum, Convenience and Grocery Association issued a statement Thursday supporting an increase in state’s gasoline tax from 17.5 cents per gallon cents. It’s the first time in the organization’s 65-year history that it has endorsed an increase in the gas tax. The organization represents more than 400 businesses that own and supply most of the Virginia convenience stores that sell gasoline.”
One would have to wonder what sort of handling fee do they receive out of the gas tax as opposed to what they get out of a sales tax. I believe I read somewhere that they get to keep 1% of the sales tax that they pay or .01% of the original sales tax.
Obstructionist Democrats won’t let our elected governor implement his plan.
gdad…why did the Virginia Petroleum, Convenience and Grocery Association change their mind so quickly. It was only last year that they were AGAINST raising tax on gas per the 2012 resolution…
1. VPCGA opposes any effort to expand local motor fuel taxation, as well as any effort to increase the rate of the existing local taxes.
2. VPCGA opposes expansion of the sales tax to gasoline, as well as any wholesale or percentage tax on gasoline.
See the 2012 Resolution here…
http://www.vpcga.com/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=202