Thursday, October 19, 2006

Proposition 1A (Fuel tax specific usage): YES

  • Proposition 1A Transportation Funding Protection
    Should the California Constitution be amended to further protect the state sales tax revenues for transportation purposes from general-purpose use and require any funds borrowed to be repaid to the transportation fund?
Gas taxes should be spent on transportation improvements. Yes, we also have education, health care, and disaster relief priorities, but they should pull from funds specifically geared to that purpose. If needs are not being met there, get actionable items on the ballots going forward - but don't try to pull from areas that voters intended for a specific use. If we want a specific amount of funds set aside specifically for discretionary spending, get it on the ballot.

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