[PRCo] Re: PATrain

[Derrick Brashear]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote:
> Absolutely correct, Derrick.
>
> But when you have a voting public that buys their groceries on Mastercard and then uses the Visa card to pay that bill because they are in over their heads, and then they lose their homes when the price of gas goes up and their variable rate mortgage goes up (Gee whiz, I didn't think the bank would screw me by raising the interest rate), then the politicians have to cater to them to get their votes.

Apparently we have none of those here, since no one is bending over to
cater to them. (Instead, we're just bending over)

> When you adjust fuel taxes to inflation, the politicians have totally abrogated their responsibility.   On my most recent trips around the united states I have observed that the highways have simply been neglected because there is no money in the kitty to fix anything.  Doing something about it would mean pushing the price of gasoline up at the same time one idiot politician tells us he knows how to lower it to $2.50 if we will elect his butt.   Or we could do it like New Jersey .... have some of the lowest gas taxes in the United States and in exchange for that, some of the highest property tax rates ... you simply use advalorem taxes to fix roads.   I know two people with homes in North Jersey with annual property tax bills in the $30,000 to $35,000 range and one is my sister-in-law.   They are large homes.  You know my house, Derrick.   It would probably have a tax rate of $28,000 a year up there .... more than three times what I am paying in Pennsylvania.   Would you rat!
>  her have that or 20 cents more at the pump?

i don't drive much, so, the obvious answer would be rather self-serving.


i'm pretty bad at actually taking the self-serving options.

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Derrick