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To: TimF who wrote (310221)	11/10/2006 4:59:45 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574097

"Of coure they can do that. " You need to tell the Ledge. They've been trying to do that for years. The Texas Supreme Court keeps stopping them. So they are in need of your wisdom here. "Before this tax the state government spent money on roads." Probably not. Prior to 1946, roads were the responsibility of the counties or cities. There weren't state highways, the interstate system hadn't begun and the farm to market roads were a county thing. Yeah, it made travel difficult, which is why there were whole areas that didn't speak English. German, Czech and Cajun French was the only language of many. Some, like my father, grew up trilingual. Heck, many roads weren't paved until the 1960s. In the city of Galveston, there are still roads that aren't paved. Texas is pretty decentralized and the state has a pretty short list of responsibilities. Which is why we only let the legislature meet once every other year. "Add (or increase) this tax and it can reduce the amount of money from other sources that it pays on road building and maintenance." Again, that only happens occasionally. There isn't a regular stream of cash from any source but fuel taxes and motor registration. It is sort of amusing that you insist that you know how things are working in a state where you don't live.