Comments on: The Atlanta Transit Tax: For the 1 Percent http://environmentblog.ncpa.org/the-atlanta-transit-tax-for-the-1-percent/ Environment and Energy Insights from NCPA's E-Team Wed, 22 May 2013 16:27:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Steven http://environmentblog.ncpa.org/the-atlanta-transit-tax-for-the-1-percent/#comment-17081 Steven Thu, 19 Jul 2012 22:44:47 +0000 http://environmentblog.ncpa.org/?p=890#comment-17081 Gas taxes are for the roads. If it is not enough to cover the costs then they should double, quintuple, or whatever it takes to cover it. Wendell Cox already wrote an article stating that roads pay for themselves so why is he now saying that a percentage of this sales tax should go to roads? It is obvious that contradiction signifies he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

]]> By: Charles Shelton http://environmentblog.ncpa.org/the-atlanta-transit-tax-for-the-1-percent/#comment-16906 Charles Shelton Sun, 15 Jul 2012 15:04:58 +0000 http://environmentblog.ncpa.org/?p=890#comment-16906 Well stated, so well in fact, that the problem description also reveals the solution.

Simply break the funding into separate projects and let the voters vote on them as follows:
Highways
Transit
Land speculation

The ones that are approved go forward and the ones that fail do not.

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