Mayor of Colorado Says Highways Need More Money

[roberth]

Echoing a local fishwrap article from a year ago about raising the gas taxes because the pump price is dropping....what about when the the pump price goes back up, will they reduce the gas tax.

http://kdvr.com/2016/01/13/colorado-state-of-the-state-address-2016/



The money needed most is for growth and expanding highways, and adding lanes as well as maintaining crumbling roads and bridges.


Travel on our highways has increased 42% in the last 20 years. But the capacity of our highway system has only grown 2%. Even an English major like me can do that math. It seems we’ve discovered the formula for congestion.
Nearly all of CDOT’s budget is dedicated to maintaining our current system, which puts critical upgrades out of reach.
Add to the equation 2 million more residents projected to join us over the next 20 years, and we’ve got a math problem. Our population grew by over 100,000 last year alone, so we need to invest now to ease congestion and mobility for today and tomorrow.
We have transportation issues up and down I-25, along I-70 and other high-volume traffic corridors throughout the state.
If we’re going to get these projects done, we must find new funding sources and leverage partnerships to pay for them.
Some have suggested a version of TRANS bonds as an option, but without new revenue, that’s like trying to drive your new truck across the state with a dollar’s worth of gas.
This is a challenge that will only get more daunting as each day passes. Let’s find a way to permanently put new money toward roads so we can truly solve Colorado’s transportation problems.

[Irving]

Shouldn't have allocated all that additional money to Medicade.

[roberth]

What about all the dope money they didn't have until recently, why can't that be used for roads?

[roberth]

side note

Why can the government use banks for taxes confiscated from dope but the dope dealers can't use the banking system?

I imagine most of the gas tax gets re-purposed for feeding wetbacks or something equally useless.

[68Charger]

BOHICA
I'm thinking they feel empowered because all the tax increases on the ballots were passed statewide, so there is more untapped taxable income available (in their view)

[Zundfolge]

Just imagine what these people would be doing to us without TABOR.

[Great-Kazoo]

Just imagine what these people would be doing to us without TABOR.

Amen to that. We'd be californicated in to brokeville.

[milwaukeeshaker]

What about that giant increase in license plate FEES(taxes) that they shoved up our butts a few years ago by bypassing Tabor? Where the hell is all this money going? Supposedly was for bridges and roads, how did the schools get into this? Even a damn trailer costs 50 bucks to plate. It's all [pileoshit]



because most of the money goes to the Department of propaganda (education ministry) The news has done many stories about how 60 percent of your vehicle registration TAX goes to schools. of course its NEVER enough.

[Ah Pook]

Echoing a local fishwrap article from a year ago about raising the gas taxes because the pump price is dropping....what about when the the pump price goes back up, will they reduce the gas tax.

The taxes on a gallon of gas are static, aren't they?

[68Charger]

The taxes on a gallon of gas are static, aren't they?

yes- but since when does the truth get in the way of journalism or Democrats?

[roberth]

The taxes on a gallon of gas are static, aren't they?


yes- but since when does the truth get in the way of journalism or Democrats?

Yes, 22 cents for Colorado and 18.4 cents to the Feds (40.4 cents per gallon), the government makes WAY more money on a gallon of gas than the oil companies.

[SamuraiCO]

Yes, 22 cents for Colorado and 18.4 cents to the Feds (40.4 cents per gallon), the government makes WAY more money on a gallon of gas than the oil companies.

With lower gas prices we drive more and more trucks/SUV's are being sold but that is bad...ie climate change. With prices where they are at and how much oil and natural gas we have there should not be such a buzzkill for vehicles the EPA and climate fools put forth.

We are always told we are not paying our fair share. The R's caved and allowed taxes to go up for the "rich". Record revenues coming into the Fed and they still keep spending more than they take in. It is never revenue it is spending. Federally and States have gradually shifted spending from infrastructure spending to income redistribution. Less money for roads, bridges, education and always fighting the 800lb gorilla in the room, Medicaid at the state level, Medicare and SS at the federal level.

Here in CO we see the knots they have tied ourselves into where they raise taxes outside of TABOR then can't spend all the money and do not want to return it and have a fiscal responsible budget.

[TFOGGER]

What's the difference between a politician and a drunken sailor?



The drunken sailor stops spending money when he runs out...

[Circuits]

As for the weed money, it's earmarked for education. So instead they reduce the general fund contribution to education by the amount of the weed tax and get to spend it on anything, while still claiming all the weed money went to education. Neat racket, huh?

[roberth]

As for the weed money, it's earmarked for education. So instead they reduce the general fund contribution to education by the amount of the weed tax and get to spend it on anything, while still claiming all the weed money went to education. Neat racket, huh?

Yah, I like that racket too, buncha con artists ought to be in jail or hanging from lampposts.

[Zundfolge]

As for the weed money, it's earmarked for education.

Education = Teachers' Unions
Teachers' Unions = Democrat Party

Weed money goes directly into the coffers of the Colorado Democrat Party. This (and the fact that legal weed attracts more idiot Democrats moving here) is why I opposed 64 even though on principal I support legalization.

[newracer]

The weed tax only goes to school construction projects.

[newracer]

And he is the governor.

[Bailey Guns]

I'm still trying to figure out who the "Mayor of Colorado" is?

[Circuits]

I'm still trying to figure out who the "Mayor of Colorado" is?

I'm gonna say... "McCheese"

[crays]

I'm still trying to figure out who the "Mayor of Colorado" is?
Understanding the OPs sense or humor/sarcasm, this was not an issue for me....

I'm gonna say... "McCheese"
.....but this is golden. [emoji106]

sent from somwhere

[roberth]

Well the sumbitch damn sure ain't no governor. The looper would eff up a wet dream even if handcock was giving him pointers.

[Jamnanc]

The weed tax only goes to school construction projects.
I would have voted yes to weed if it wasn't sold as helping education. I would have voted yes if it went to the general fund. I don't like being lied to.

[Great-Kazoo]

I would have voted yes to weed if it wasn't sold as helping education. I would have voted yes if it went to the general fund. I don't like being lied to.

The Irony of the weed - schools funding................
They have no problem brainwashing kids under the guise of the D.A.R.E Program.

So it seems to a government mindset

DRUGS ARE BAD. BUT FUK IT WE'LL TAKE THEIR MONEY. [facepalm]

[Bailey Guns]

Understanding the OPs sense or humor/sarcasm, this was not an issue for me....

Yeah...my jab was meant to be tongue-in-cheek. Fail.


.....but this is golden.

Agreed. Best response of the night.

[crays]

Yeah...my jab was meant to be tongue-in-cheek. Fail.



Agreed. Best response of the night.
Didn't figure you didn't get it, but it added punch to my response.

Thanks for the assist.

Hope Idaho is treating you well.

sent from somwhere

[68Charger]

ok, the whole educmacation thing- the root of the problem is that liberals have completely seized control of academia...

we all know the more money you give to liberals, the more they demand, and they more they fuck up the system... so until liberals are wrenched from the edumacation system, I will NOT put my children in it, and I will vote for anything that REDUCES the amount of money given to the communists posing as Democrats.

[gohome]

[cstone]

"Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted."

Vladimir Lenin (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/v/vladimir_lenin.html)

[Ah Pook]

I'm gonna say... "McCheese"
I think the Hambugler won the last election.