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To: combjelly who wrote (310209)	11/10/2006 4:29:02 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574005

Of coure they can do that. It is written into the constitution that the gasoline taxes collected go into the road fund and said fund can only be spent on new roads, bridges and maintenance. Period. Which once again is meaningless in terms of not having the gasoline tax cause an increase in non road spending. Before this tax the state government spent money on roads. Add (or increase) this tax and it can reduce the amount of money from other sources that it pays on road building and maintenance. Its just like lottery moneys that have to be spent on education. Sure 100% of the dedicated money gets spent on what its dedicated to, but previously spent non dedicated money gets moved elsewhere.