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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (310233)11/10/2006 5:39:03 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 1574254
 
"The chance that the state supreme court has kept the state legislature from changing the spending of funds that are not tied by any law or regulation to a specific purpose, is close to zero."

Right. Thank you. Which is what I've been saying all along. Where you got the idea that they weren't tied to a specific purpose is beyond me.

"The court likely has stopped the state from switching gasoline tax funds to other purposes because the law says they have to be used for roads."

That is the case. I've been saying that all along.

"It is other funds that would be shifted not the gasoline tax funds."

That is the point. There aren't other funds except for what might be allocated in a special session. Haven't you read anything I posted?

"Possibly Texas never funded road construction with any other funds besides gasoline taxes. "

Not on a regular basis. There might be a bill to fund a road. Or a bridge. But there isn't anything on an ongoing basis. Now that is at the state level. There are various adders that the counties can make to the sales tax to support road and bridge construction. But Austin has nothing to do with that.

"But if there are no other funds to shift than your comment"

The Ledge makes an attempt every once in a while to dissolve the road fund and roll it into the rest of the budget. The TSC stops them every time. With good reason, it is written into the constitution. Here is what I am talking about.

A dedicated fund contains government revenues from taxes, fees, licenses, or other sources designated constitutionally, statutorily, or by the requirements of federal law to be spent for specific programs or purposes. For example, in Texas the state collects twenty cents on every gallon of gasoline sold. The Texas constitution requires that seventy-five percent of this revenue must be deposited in the Highway Trust Fund which is dedicated to road and bridge building and maintenance in Texas. The other twenty-five percent must go into the Available School Fund which can be spent only on public education. A significant share of the state's budget in Texas involves spending from dedicated funds.

texaspolitics.laits.utexas.edu

The Ledge doesn't have a lot of power to shift funds around. Most of their budgetary duties have to do with education and health and human services. For the roads that is handled at the state level, all the funding is from the Highway Trust Fund and almost all of the money that goes there comes from the Feds or the taxes mentioned above.
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