Friday, October 5th 2007
Let’s tax gas
Bay area officials have a “brilliant” idea: tax gasoline to stop global warming. The San Francisco Chronicle has the story:
Regional officials are taking a close look at trying to increase the Bay Area’s gasoline tax by as much as 10 cents a gallon and believe voters might agree to it as a way to help combat global warming, The Chronicle learned Thursday.
The idea is still in the early planning stages, but the money will probably end up going somewhere other then helping motorists. Aside from possibly improving roads, the article suggests the money might help BART or other forms of public transportation get money they have not secured on their own. This would be taxing one group of people to pay for stuff for another. It is the kind of social engineering the government has no right to be in.
People around the bay area already care about global warming. From the Chronicle:
“People will kill their puppies to stop global warming these days,” said Dave Snyder with a smile. Snyder is transportation policy director at the San Francisco Policy and Urban Planning Association, a think tank.
If this passes, I am going to gas up my car when I am just outside of the tax area. The next time I am driving home to Orange County the cents I would have spent in sales tax at a Berkeley station will go to an area where the global warming tax does not apply. If this is the result people want, they should pass the tax.
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