EVs pay a 60 dollar per year “fee” to cover what the owners don’t pay in gas tax. Hybrids pay $30 per year in “fees”. Also, not all of the gas tax goes to roads and bridges. For example, a large portion goes to the SCDES to run the Underground Storage Tank cleanup program. This is a public fund that pays to clean up underground spills from tanks at gas stations. Yes, your public tax dollars go to pay for cleanup on private property, so the real question is why is the public forced to pay for this?
Years and years of more money for SC roads and bridges has been joke.
Same old regurgitated asserted solutions over and over and over.
SCDOT screams the need to be cleaned out from top to bottom. Dozens of these people need to be prosecuted for scamming and getting paid for being extremely non-productice.
SCDOT is no different than the theft of public money in the State of Minnesota.
At headquarters, there were times when I worked there that brand new computers that arrived were going right back out the door into private vehicles!
“…having one of the Country’s lowest gasoline taxes has led to this funding dilemma that we now face“…
Could not disagree more – the issue isn’t the incoming money, it the decisions on how it is spent. The freaking fraudulently passed “penny tax” in Richland county was supposed to be for “infrastructure”. More than 30% has been spent to subsidize the money losing “rapid transit system” AKA “COMET”. 10% of the money spent was on bike lanes. While I love a good bike path, it ain’t infrastructure. The Three Rivers project will cost an untold amount of money (seriously, no one can tell us what it will really cost and while I love a good trail along the river, you won’t be able to drive a car on it). Between 2013 and 2018, Richland County was found to have illegally spent $25,000,000+. No sir, Richland County is just an example of how well our state spends money.
Why are we PAYING to have trees cut down on the interstate? I thought we had a climate crisis – seems to me trees could help with that. DOT’s story is that it cuts down on car/deer collisions but the numbers aren’t show it to be true. They also claim that it will increase safety – that remains to be seen but how safe is it when the car now has time/room to flip three to 4 times after running off the road. Where did the billion+ dollars SC took in on the gas tax last year go?
No sir, the problem isn’t money, the problem is spending priority.
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EVs pay a 60 dollar per year “fee” to cover what the owners don’t pay in gas tax. Hybrids pay $30 per year in “fees”. Also, not all of the gas tax goes to roads and bridges. For example, a large portion goes to the SCDES to run the Underground Storage Tank cleanup program. This is a public fund that pays to clean up underground spills from tanks at gas stations. Yes, your public tax dollars go to pay for cleanup on private property, so the real question is why is the public forced to pay for this?
Years and years of more money for SC roads and bridges has been joke.
Same old regurgitated asserted solutions over and over and over.
SCDOT screams the need to be cleaned out from top to bottom. Dozens of these people need to be prosecuted for scamming and getting paid for being extremely non-productice.
SCDOT is no different than the theft of public money in the State of Minnesota.
At headquarters, there were times when I worked there that brand new computers that arrived were going right back out the door into private vehicles!
“…having one of the Country’s lowest gasoline taxes has led to this funding dilemma that we now face“…
Could not disagree more – the issue isn’t the incoming money, it the decisions on how it is spent. The freaking fraudulently passed “penny tax” in Richland county was supposed to be for “infrastructure”. More than 30% has been spent to subsidize the money losing “rapid transit system” AKA “COMET”. 10% of the money spent was on bike lanes. While I love a good bike path, it ain’t infrastructure. The Three Rivers project will cost an untold amount of money (seriously, no one can tell us what it will really cost and while I love a good trail along the river, you won’t be able to drive a car on it). Between 2013 and 2018, Richland County was found to have illegally spent $25,000,000+. No sir, Richland County is just an example of how well our state spends money.
Why are we PAYING to have trees cut down on the interstate? I thought we had a climate crisis – seems to me trees could help with that. DOT’s story is that it cuts down on car/deer collisions but the numbers aren’t show it to be true. They also claim that it will increase safety – that remains to be seen but how safe is it when the car now has time/room to flip three to 4 times after running off the road. Where did the billion+ dollars SC took in on the gas tax last year go?
No sir, the problem isn’t money, the problem is spending priority.