More Taxes

Via Alphecca, I'm clicked over to this piece where the bureaucrats want more of our money.

WASHINGTON – Motorists are driving less and buying less gasoline, which means fuel taxes aren't raising enough money to keep pace with the cost of road, bridge and transit programs.

That's right. Fuel taxes are computed at the pump, on a per-gallon basis. If we use less fuel, we pay less tax. This bothers our overlords, who don't see the basic disconnect. We're using less fuel, paying less taxes, so we're using the road less.

The 15-member National Commission on Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing is the second group in a year to call for increasing the current 18.4 cents a gallon federal tax on gasoline and the 24.4 cents a gallon tax on diesel. State fuel taxes vary from state to state.

In a report expected in late January, members of the infrastructure financing commission say they will urge Congress to raise the gas tax by 10 cents a gallon and the diesel tax by about 12 cents to 15 cents a gallon. At the same time, the commission will recommend tying the fuel tax rates to inflation.

No, no, no, you dumbasses. Let's cut somewhere else to pay for roads and bridges. Like the TARP money. Let's dedicate that to roads and bridges. Or the Detroit bailout money. Let's dedicate that to roads and bridges. At least it would be a constitutional use of tax money, unlike the socialist bullshit that passes for legilation these days.

Government, through the CAFE standards, tells us we should use less fuel. Drive lighter cars and trucks. Conserve. Now, these dumbasses are upset that we're conserving. They want to tax it. Well, screw them. And the horse they rode in on.