Miles-traveled tax being scrutinized
If you don’t like gasoline taxes, here’s an alternative: a tax on the number of miles you drive in a year.…Delisi said the vehicle-miles-traveled tax idea is “controversial” but should be discussed because revenue from the state’s main source of transportation funding, the motor fuels tax, is declining. The gasoline tax hasn’t [...]

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The fact that people will be convinced by Peggy Venable’s alarmist, cacophony of incoherent data present as a column in the Express News is why no one will blame Perry for higher taxes
MySA.com: Commentary
 
Texas has by far the highest property taxes in the region, more than double any other neighboring state and second in the [...]

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War Room: Political News, Politics News – Salon

After refusing to support the Webb amendment giving the troops a decent interval between deployments, the blocking the defense authorization bill, President Bush and the Republicans are now wailing that the Democrats are refusing to give the military a pay raise.
This is the same pay raise that was [...]

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Another one of those silly quality of life issues that no one wants to pay for:
MySA.com: City Council

Ranking near the bottom among Texas’ six largest cities in the amount of per-capita funding it receives, San Antonio’s library system is in dire straits, with $17 million worth of maintenance needs it can’t afford, the City Council [...]

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This is probably the only tax Roddy Stinson hasn’t come out against.
MySA.com: Business
But the city’s total hotel tax ranks among the most expensive in the country at a whopping 16.75 percent. Most of it is divided between the state (6 percent) and city (7 percent) for visitor marketing. Another 2 percent finances Convention Center expansion.
Too [...]

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