Get Ready To Take The Long Way Home Hoosiers

Get ready to take the long way home Hoosiers. Additional Toll roads indeed a possibility as Indiana Republicans ask taxpayers to write another check, AGAIN.

“If we’re going to have and maintain an infrastructure that will meet our needs, this is the only thing that really works,” said State Sen. Michael Crider (R-District 28), who sponsored House Bill 1461. “It seems like the fairest way to do it is to come up with a reasonable tolling-type mechanism to fund the infrastructure for the future.” ~ WTHR

Tony Katz:  

That is State Senator Michael Crider, Republican sponsor of House Bill 1461. Now you say to me, Tony, what is House Bill 1461? Well, that’s for road funding. As you know, this is Indiana and one cannot swing a dead cat without having some conversation about the importance of road funding. Ohh God. And it’s got Republicans and Democrats, as the Co-sponsors make various changes to provisions concerning road and transportation allow a taxpayer to claim a credit against state income tax liability for certain qualified railroad expenditures. OK. Ohh. And then, uh, it, it allows for the maximum rate a county containing a consolidated city may impose for the county wheel tax and the county vehicle excise tax, which means these could be raised and ohh, yes, I believe, it allows for toll roads. Which is, of course, the conversation. “If we’re going to have to maintain an infrastructure that will meet our needs, this is the only thing that really works. It seems like the fairest way to do it is to come up with a reasonable tolling type mechanism to fund the infrastructure for the future.” Ah. The answer to everything is you write a check: Property taxes, the answer is you write a check. Roads? The answer is you write a check. Well, you already wrote a check? Well write another check. This is not and I want to make sure we’re clear for all the Republicans who want to tell me, Tony, you don’t understand. I don’t argue the, the increase in costs. Allow me to make the argument you have never once, never once made; a claim that doesn’t involve something else going away so that people don’t have to spend another dime. You don’t offer that. You simply say one more check, please. And then when people say we’re tired of writing checks, you say, well, I guess you’re not going to have services and then grandma’s going to die. And then for cockta. Economists and pseudo intellectual columnists, right? Why don’t you want a better Indiana? All the services but yet I can’t afford to leave my house. The argument must be one that is measured and one that puts forth. That’s how we’re engaging in a responsible way and the Republican Party and never mind the Democratic Party has not put forth anything in this session that discusses a responsible way, they want to argue it. That is not what the people see, and they refuse to accept what the people see somehow, “Well, you don’t understand it… Ohh. You listen to those talk radio people.” I don’t know why insulting me is somehow a philosophy that the Republican Party wants to go with. But if you want to start a fight. OK. I’m in.

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