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What everyone needs to know about SC gas taxes
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What everyone needs to know about SC gas taxes
May 11, 2017, 10:01 AM
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http://www.thestate.com/opinion/op-ed/article143386409.html
South Carolinians have been led to believe that all the taxes they pay on gas, some $600 million this year, go to improve our roads, bridges and highways.
Not true.
Under the current system, more than a quarter of our gas tax revenues never make it to the pavement. They pay for salaries and other overhead at the Transportation Department or are diverted to numerous state agencies for other government functions.
The rest of gas tax revenues are allocated by the Department of Transportation and the State Infrastructure Bank through an inefficient system of parochial politics and patronage created and tightly controlled by powerful legislators. The result? A large portion of the money spent on roads goes to the wrong ones: non-priority roads.
We don't need more taxes. We need to fix the problem in Columbia.
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Re: What everyone needs to know about SC gas taxes
May 11, 2017, 10:03 AM
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Our state has one of the lowest gas taxes...hasn't been raised in 30 years...our roads are chit compared to our neighboring states NC and GA
Maybe i'm biased because I work in the transportation industry.
With that said i'm going to go fill up my 36 gal tank before the prices raise.
Do you expect DOT workers to work for free? also it sounds like some of that re-allocated money goes to local government for road project funding. The DOT is HUGE and can't be expected to run 100% efficiently with the amount of roads they are responsible for. Maybe lobby to have your county start their own transportation division and watch your property taxes raise then. There's NO issue with this gas tax.
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if were seeing progress in 5 years after this increase
May 11, 2017, 10:26 AM
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I'll gladly admit I'm wrong, but I don't think I am. We will see zero benefit from this increase, and then they'll want to raise the tax again. This money will go skraight up a hogs ###, and you can count on that.
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Re: if were seeing progress in 5 years after this increase
May 11, 2017, 10:28 AM
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The worst that is going to happen is the influx of new funding is going to create a shortage of highway engineers to work on new projects as they come out. My office can only handle 2 or 3 major projects at a time but if there's more work out there we may buff up and higher a couple new people if they are out there. Highway engineering isn't a very popular field amongst civil engineers.
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Do you know much about abandoned railway right-of-ways?
May 11, 2017, 10:31 AM
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TIA.
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Just like our schools.
May 11, 2017, 3:20 PM
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We keep building newer and nicer ones; test scores stay the same.
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Oculus Spirit [81253]
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Sure there is. SC just didn't do it.
May 11, 2017, 3:21 PM
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I'd put money down that it won't even be 6 years before the DOT wants even more money.
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So 75% goes to road maintenance and
May 11, 2017, 10:21 AM
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Some of the remaining goes to pay for DOT employees and their buildings, and some other percentage is distributed by the state to fill shortages in the budget. I don't see a huge problem here. It's. It like 90% is used for the governor's hookers and cocaine and 10% goes to the DOT.
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**not like***
May 11, 2017, 10:22 AM
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It amazes me that people question the need to pay
May 11, 2017, 10:34 AM
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people's salary's running this stuff. H3ll their salaries should go up too.
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From what to what...? That's kind of a blanket statement.***
May 11, 2017, 10:39 AM
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Re: From what to what...? That's kind of a blanket statement.***
May 11, 2017, 10:46 AM
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I don't know their salaries but an increase in work load should be compensated.
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Re: From what to what...? That's kind of a blanket statement.***
May 11, 2017, 10:55 AM
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They would just hire more employees. Most of the extra work is going to go to the firms that bid on the road projects.
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Yep. Waste. My only regret about the new tax
May 11, 2017, 10:51 AM
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is that it will be pilfered to maximize votes instead of improve roads.
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Wouldn't improving roads maximize votes?***
May 11, 2017, 10:53 AM
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Not as much as free fones, or daycare, or whatever else***
May 11, 2017, 2:00 PM
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Orange Blooded [3590]
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Less than 3/4 goes to roads, and a large percentage of that
May 11, 2017, 11:24 AM
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goes to non-priority political payoff roads.
Classic use of taxpayer money.
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Letterman [287]
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Anyone that believes this was GOOD for the taxpayer..
May 11, 2017, 12:46 PM
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needs to do some research. This was a BAD bill. It was not just raising gas tax.
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