Originally Posted By: paramedicpete
It is my understanding that the truckers are asking for the tax portion of the total fuel price to be lowered or suspended for a while.

Pete


Well okay - all for it, if they can tell us how to repair the federal highway infrastructure without any income, which currently comes from the fuel taxes. You turn off the spigot, the money has to come from somewhere else. No money, no repairs, no income for concrete pourers, engineers, asphalt companies etc etc who are engaged in building and maintaining the highway system.

If the counter-argument is that the grid can be kept up just on the reduction in fraud / waste that could be frigged out of the system, well, no I'm not with you anymore. Concrete and asphalt costs are going up too. Nothing comes cheap, and roads certainly don't come for free.