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Article: YOUR VEIWS: AUTOMATIC GAS TAX.(FORUM)(Letter to the Editor)
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- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- December 18, 2005
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Legislature: make tough choices
Regarding Bob Cook's argument in last Sunday's Forum that repealing the gas tax indexing formula will lead to "lost lives, lost jobs and lost time," forget the scare tactics. Repealing automatic increases has only one direct impact -- increasing transparency and accountability in transportation investments.
Eliminating indexing does nothing to prevent the gas tax from going up next week, much less next year. If legislators want to, they can vote tomorrow to increase the gas tax by one penny, one dollar, whatever they want. The key word is vote, meaning those legislators will have to risk being held accountable by their constituents at ...