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And your comment conveniently omits that ballot item was a non-binding opinion question on using a gas tax increase to fund education and public roads. And that
by NorthOf33rd 8y ago
And your comment conveniently omits that ballot item was a non-binding opinion question on using a gas tax increase to fund education and public roads. And that it was defeated. And that a tax != a subsidy.
- chiefalchemist 8y agoA tax != a aubsidy. But tax can be, and oftwn is, a means to make taxed-thing-X less appealing. For example, you can make electric cars more appealing by increaing the tax on gas. Where things get ugly is when the incentives are in conflict. Again, oil is subsidized and then taxed. Big Oil wins. Gov wins. Consumers - who pay the subsidy and the tax - lose.