The North Carolina Gas Tax Will Increase 15% On New Year's Day! TAKE ACTION!

[BlueRidgeRunner]

This is no joke! North Carolinians need to rise up and speak out against higher fuel prices. Sign the petition, Pass this on to your friends, family and other boards. We already pay too much. January is coming fast. Its time we put the brakes on this unfair tax. Here is a few facts from

http://www.stopthegastaxhike.com/

FACT
North Carolina politicians -- like the Arab Oil Cartel - are windfall winners from higher gas prices. N.C. divides the gas tax into two parts -- a flat 17.5 cents /gallon + 7% of the wholesale price. When gas prices rise, North Carolina politicians automatically have more money to spend. The wholesale price is up -- so drivers will pay a 15% tax increase beginning in January.


Visit http://www.stopthegastaxhike.com/ and read the rest of the dirty details. Sign the petition and pass this on!

CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE PETITION DIRECTLY

 

[powerboatr]

ouch

 

[BJS]

dang & here I was thinking about moving to NC.

 

[ford4life]

Thanks for letting us know about the petition. Regardless of whether this petition does any good or not, I think we should clean house on politicians at the next election. If they didn't waste so much they wouldn't need the tax hike, but then that would take the fun out of being a politician. All the corruption that's coming to light over the lottery and speaker of the house makes me wonder how much goes on that we never even hear about. Just my $0.02.

 

[HCAbowman]

Done!

 

[HTRDDSL]

Talk about gouging the public.

 

[Mobeydick]

I don't know about NC. But a tax hike is in order. Let’s say a gallon of Fuel in the year 1990 cost $1.00 with the 20 cent tax. That's a 20% tax. FF to 2005, Fuel price is say $2.00 a gallon the tax is 20 cent. That is a 10% tax. Inflation causes a tax decline and fuel actually becomes cheaper!! That 10% goes a lot less than the 20% 15 years before.

Beside the tax on Fuel is the only stable portion of the cost of fuel. IE. the more tax the more stable the price.

Also that would make people conserve fuel more, (Driving, Demand &
Fuel cost down sending less money to the Arabs) It would make people make smart choices like making sure they pick up the milk or bread before they get home!!

I burn nearly 3,900 gallons of Fuel a year. I would mind if the tax on Fuel was $3.00 a gallon!! Not because I’m Rich I'm not, but because it would be in our national interest to do so!!

I wouldn't want the tax to go up that much in 1 day but a 1 cent per gallon per month tax on all Fuel made from petroleum would take 300
Months (25 years) and would give our Auto Mfg. time adjust!! If that would have been done in the early seventies instead of letting the EPA dictate Fuel mileage on Autos, we would not have the trouble in the world we have today!!

 

[ranger boy]

dammit, just more money comin out of my pocket to build stupid 3 lane highways with an HOV lane that don't even help traffic flow.

^^^
Can you tell I've been stuck in traffic today?

 

[BJS]

Moby I'll have to disagree that taxes are not the way to motivate people to decrease consumption. Unfortunately common sense is long lost on the general popluation of America. Only with the prices that have jumped up to 3.50/gallon were a significant portion of the country considering fuel economy when purchasing a vehicle.

As far as the income revenue vs inflation yes you do have a fixed portion. For any given commodity I'll accept price fluctuation over the majority of the price being taxes. Your arguement is valid only if you are operating under the assumption that all of the road finances are coming from the fuel tax.

The fuel tax is not where all of the road money comes from, for GA the tax was not originally used for roads. The majority comes from other forms of taxation which do adjust according to inflation such as income and property taxes.

 

[Mobeydick]

BJS: That is all the more reason to raise the Tax on Fuel made from petroleum. If the tax, don't cover the cost of building & maintaining the Roads it should be made to do so! That would make people use common sense!!

Also, it would over 25 years make Fuel made from petroleum so expensive that it would not be a viable fuel source! That would be a great day for the United States and a bad day for Arabs. It would be great for our environment!! Eventually you would not have to pay that tax; the next Generation should not be taxed the same way!!