House committee passes new car-registration fee

[TexasTowelie]

Unable politically to hike the state gasoline tax to help pave and repair roads, a House panel voted Wednesday to impose a new fee when people register their cars and trucks every year.

HB 2166 would empower the head of the state Department of Transportation to impose a charge that would, when applied to all vehicles, raise enough money to fund the Highway Patrol. Rep. Noel Campbell, R-Prescott, who crafted the measure, figures it would come out somewhere between $17 and $19 a year.

The 7-1 vote by the House Committee on Transportation and Technology sends the measure to the full House.

Campbell, who chairs the panel, has been beating the drum for years to find additional dollars to not only build new roads but fix existing ones.

Read more: https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2018/02/07/house-committee-passes-new-car-registration-fee/

[marybourg]

1. Yeah, well, when you run on the mantra of

"we don't want to pay no taxes. we know what we each want to spend our own money on", it's hard to announce you're going to raise taxes. Fees are not taxes, to the publican mind, apparently.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. And these states wonder why

Transportation related Industries do not want to relocate.