rphaedrus (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} rphaedrus) wrote,@ 2006-10-27 10:32:00 |
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Help?
I'm having a hard time figuring out how to vote on the state transportation amendment. Anyone want to argue one side or the other to help me get a handle on it?
Pros:
40% or more of sales tax gets put into transit.
Cons:
Anything not going to transit goes to roads.
Mike Hatch and Tim Pawlenty support it.
Specific funding being declared in the state constitution seems inappropriate to me. Shouldn't it be done legislatively not constitutionally?
Why this sales tax to be specifically directed and not all the rest of our sales taxes?
Other opponents have also offered the cons that the money being dedicated here takes it out of the rest of the budget but it seems to me that we spend way more on roads and transit than what this sales tax brings in.
I'm having a hard time figuring out how to vote on the state transportation amendment. Anyone want to argue one side or the other to help me get a handle on it?
Shall the Minnesota Constitution be amended to dedicate revenue from a tax on the sale of new and used motor vehicles over a five-year period, so that after June 30, 2011, all of the revenue is dedicated at least 40 percent for public transit assistance and not more than 60 percent for highway purposes?Remember, not voting on it is equivalent to voting against it.
Pros:
40% or more of sales tax gets put into transit.
Cons:
Anything not going to transit goes to roads.
Mike Hatch and Tim Pawlenty support it.
Specific funding being declared in the state constitution seems inappropriate to me. Shouldn't it be done legislatively not constitutionally?
Why this sales tax to be specifically directed and not all the rest of our sales taxes?
Other opponents have also offered the cons that the money being dedicated here takes it out of the rest of the budget but it seems to me that we spend way more on roads and transit than what this sales tax brings in.
